On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 9:20 AM Joel Fernandes <joel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > There's one improvement (although probably verys small) that the paper mentions: > Also according to the paper you referenced, the instruction cache is > what would also benefit. Those spinlock and hlist initialization > instructions wouldn't cost L1 I-cache footprint for every allocation. Just to add to my statement: Obviously, this benefit gives diminishing returns in this code path considering that the allocations here are infrequent. But I just mentioned it here for completeness sake. Thanks, - Joel
