Richard Braun, le Sun 14 Dec 2014 15:44:44 +0100, a écrit : > If the critical sections protected by this lock are all small enough, > granularity tends to matter much less. My point being that this could > be generalized for all IPLs,
Yes, but investigation is needed to make sure that the protected sections are indeed small. It appeared that the sched level was, indeed, I haven't checked the others. > since they are all affected by the virtualization penalty. Yes, but provided they are not too frequent, it doesn't pose problem. Samuel