https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=79784
--- Comment #5 from Jakub Jelinek <jakub at gcc dot gnu.org> --- (In reply to Andrew Pinski from comment #4) > Or the case the futex syscall is returning right away ... The spinning is completely configurable, see the documented OMP_WAIT_POLICY (standard) and GOMP_SPINCOUNT environment variables. How much spinning is desirable depends on the workload, how many cores/threads are busy in the app, how many cores/threads there are, what other programs are running on the box. Decreasing the spincount can result in severe latency degradation. And, if some threads don't have anything to do anymore and are just waiting for other threads, then spending time in the spinning loops or waiting on futex depending on the above mentioned setting is the only thing it can do, so obviously you see a lot of that.
