[PATCH] NUMA spinlock [BZ #23962]

Carlos O'Donell carlos@redhat.com
Thu Jan 10 16:41:00 GMT 2019


On 1/10/19 11:32 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * 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.

Absolutely. That's a great idea.

-- 
Cheers,
Carlos.



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