Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] futex: introduce an optimistic spinning futex

Andi Kleen
2014-07-21T16:46:58Z

Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> writes:

> Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com> writes:
>
>> This patch series introduces two new futex command codes to support
>> a new optimistic spinning futex for implementing an exclusive lock
>> primitive that should perform better than the same primitive using
>> the wait-wake futex in cases where the lock owner is actively working
>> instead of waiting for I/O completion.
>
> How would you distinguish those two cases automatically?

Also BTW traditionally the spinning was just done in user space.

This would be always even more efficient, because it would
even avoid the syscall entry path.

Given the glibc adaptive mutexes are not very good, but I'm sure those
could be improved.

-Andi

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