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Subject: Re: [PATCH] randomized delay in locking primitives, take 2
To: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>
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From: Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org>
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Mateusz,

just out of curiosity, have you tried to explore alternative spinlock
implementations like a ticket lock?   It would be interesting to see if
there are any improvements to be gained there.

-- 
Andriy Gapon