Lock elision problems in glibc-2.18

Andi Kleen andi@firstfloor.org
Sat Sep 14 06:23:00 GMT 2013


Torvald Riegel <triegel@redhat.com> writes:

>  We need to do this, and if the app
> misinterprets and *always* keeps retrying, it will hang.

The app is broken then. Retrying forever is simply not allowed.
I don't think it makes sense to complicate glibc for this.

-Andi

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