* Rik van Riel wrote:
> Many spinlocks are embedded in data structures; having many CPUs
> pounce on the cache line the lock is in will slow down the lock
> holder, and can cause system performance to fall off a cliff.
>
> The paper "Non-scalable locks are dangerous" is a good reference:
>
>
Many spinlocks are embedded in data structures; having many CPUs
pounce on the cache line the lock is in will slow down the lock
holder, and can cause system performance to fall off a cliff.
The paper "Non-scalable locks are dangerous" is a good reference:
http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/papers
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