On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 1:42 PM, H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]> wrote: > Perhaps I'm missing something here, but what is MCS lock and what is the > value?
Its a kind of queued lock where each waiter spins on a a separate memory word, instead of having them all spin on the lock's memory word. This helps with scalability when many waiters queue on the same lock. -- Michel "Walken" Lespinasse A program is never fully debugged until the last user dies. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
