TSX lock elision for glibc v2

Andi Kleen andi@firstfloor.org
Sat Jan 26 03:51:00 GMT 2013


> In malloc as I described in previous thread locking seem bottleneck.
> Unless with lock elision it would take 10 cycles or so then implementations that 
> avoid locks/atomic are better.

Lock elision is mainly useful for contended locks. It's unlikely to help
with an uncontended lock.

-Andi



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