Re: [RFC] perf: fix building for ARCv1

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 09:46:35AM +0000, Vineet Gupta wrote:
> On ARC we could use the atomic EXchange to implement a user space only binary
> semaphore - these atomic ops will be small duration so it is OK to spin wait for a
> little bit. That's how the old pthread library worked for ARC w/o any atomic support.

That has the obvious problem of lock-holder-preemption and the horrible
performance issues that result from that.

I think the syscall at least has deterministic behaviour, whereas that
userspace spin loop has this abysmal worst case thing.
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