On Mon, 2014-11-24 at 21:03 -0500, Rik van Riel wrote: > I can see this "solution" help mostly with userspace spinlocks, > which are relics of a past era that need to die. There is no > way userspace spinlocks will not fail miserably on virtual > machines, and it is time to get rid of them. No, not really. Spinlocks are still very useful on bare metal. Virtualization is not the only thing out there. Thanks, Davidlohr -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
