[PATCH] NUMA spinlock [BZ #23962]

[Florian Weimer]

* Torvald Riegel:

> What I mean is that applications would have to want to use locks provided
> by tbb, whether those are locks/mutexes that exist in tbb today or a new
> API that would be added.
>
> Put differently, I'm not optimistic about tbb being a good way to get
> feedback.

Do you want to run existing workloads with a new mutex implementation?

Then we can't add new flags or change ABI in any way and would have to
use a tunable.  And to get feedback, we would have to make the new
implementation the default, with a tunable to get back the old
implementation.

Thanks,
Florian