[PATCH 02/10] Add the low level infrastructure for pthreads lock elision with TSX

Andi Kleen andi@firstfloor.org
Sun Jan 13 20:46:00 GMT 2013


> I'm going to be suggesting we should expose a generic API and 
> environment variables.

I think an program API is a bad idea. I don't want programs with these
tunables hard coded. I don't consider them an ABI and reserve
the right to change them at any time. Tunables are for experiments,
not for hardcoding forever.

-Andi

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