On Thu, 8 Jun 2017, James Hogan wrote: > > A PAUSE might be in order here. > > Quite possibly, though I'm not sure its worth bothering to optimise this > old/unused code. Well, given that... > I had a patch somewhere to add PAUSE to spinlock loops... ... I advise doing it consistently throughout, so that someone does not copy-&-paste the wrong piece if nothing else. On it's own I agree it would be quite odd to only have the least used piece optimised. Maciej