Disable mutex spinning?

Ivan Voras ivoras at fer.hr
Sun Jun 10 19:06:34 UTC 2007


Ivan Voras wrote:

> I'm thinking of experiment - removing all spinning from mutex-like code
> and try running such kernel in a VMWare machine. For start, is there
> anything else except turning off ADAPTIVE_MUTEXES, ADAPTIVE_GIANT and
> ADAPTIVE_RWLOCKS I can do via the kernel config file?

Hmm, on second thought this wouldn't help at all unless there's much
contention....

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