Re: [PATCH] NUMA spinlock [BZ #23962]

[Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>]

* Carlos O'Donell:

> My opinion is that for the health and evolution of a NUMA-aware spinlock
> and MCS lock, that we should create a distinct project and library that
> should have those locks, and then work to put them into downstream
> distributions. This will support key users being able to use supported
> versions of those libraries, and give the needed feedback about the API
> and the performance. It may take 1-2 years to get that feedback and every
> piece of feedback will improve the final API/ABI we put into glibc or
> even into the next ISO C standard as pat of the C thread interface.

I think it's something taht could land in tbb, for which many
distributions already have mechanisms to ship updated versions after a
release.

Thanks,
Florian