Re: [RFC PATCH for 4.18 00/14] Restartable Sequences

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Wed, May 02, 2018 at 03:53:47AM +0000, Daniel Colascione wrote:
> The usual approach to "better" is an "adaptive mutex". Such a thing, when
> it attempts to acquire a lock another thread owns, spins for some number of
> iterations, then falls back to futex. I guess that's a little better than
> immediately jumping to futex, but it's not optimal. We can still spin when
> the lock owner isn't scheduled, and the spin count is usually some guess
> (either specified manually or estimated statistically) that's not
> guaranteed to produce decent results. Even if we do pick a good spin count,
> we run a very good chance of under- or over-spinning on any given
> lock-acquire. We always want to sleep when spinning would be pointless.

Look for the FUTEX_LOCK patches from Waiman.