Re: [GIT PULL] adaptive spinning mutexes

[Folkert van Heusden]

> So I don't dispute at all that "mutex with spinning" performs better than 
> a mutex, but I _do_ claim that it has some potentially huge downsides 
> compared to a real spinlock. It may perform as well as a spinlock in the 
> nice common case, but then when you hit the non-common case you see the 
> difference between well-written code and badly written code.

Make it mount-point dependant. Then your mail-spool can use the spinlock
version and e.g. the /usr filesystem uses regular mutexes. Might be
tricky to implement I guess.


Folkert van Heusden

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