On Tue, Apr 16, 2024 at 04:18:24PM -0500, Elizabeth Figura wrote: > Is the concern about poor performance when ntsync is in use, or is nesting a > lot of spinlocks like that something that could cause problems for unrelated > tasks? I'm not familiar enough with the scheduler to know if this can be > abused. The problem is keeping preemption disabled for potentially a fairly long time. By doing that you potentially affect the performance of other tasks.