Re: [PATCH V2 0/6][RFC] futex: FUTEX_LOCK with optional adaptivespinning

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Tue, 2010-04-06 at 16:41 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 04/06/2010 04:35 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Tue, 2010-04-06 at 16:28 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> >    
> >> Yes, but that's the best case for spinning.  You could simply use a
> >> userspace spinlock in this case.
> >>      
> > Userspace spinlocks are evil.. they should _never_ be used.
> >    
> 
> But in this case they're fastest.  If we don't provide a non-evil 
> alternative, people will use them.
> 

That's what FUTEX_LOCK is about.

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