Luck, Tony wrote:
Early last year x86 changed their spinlock implementation to use a fair "ticket" system (just like the one at deli counter in the grocery store). Here is the same conversion for ia64.
A naieve comment, but doesn't a desire to implement "fairness" suggest lock contention that aught to be addressed?
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