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Re: TSX lock elision for glibc v12
- From: Andi Kleen <andi at firstfloor dot org>
- To: Torvald Riegel <triegel at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Andi Kleen <andi at firstfloor dot org>, Rich Felker <dalias at aerifal dot cx>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org, Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>, Roland McGrath <roland at hack dot frob dot com>
- Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 16:01:32 +0200
- Subject: Re: TSX lock elision for glibc v12
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> That's not what I have in mind at least. See the 2.18 discussion
> thread.
For me Rich's proposal seems far better than anything you
proposed so far. It has: low complexity, is actually implementable
in a day or so, is likely to satisfy elision support of
existing binaries, as far as I understand will fully satisfy
POSIX?
-Andi
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