These come in the form of CK_ELIDE_ADAPTIVE_PROTOTYPE,
CK_ELIDE_LOCK_ADAPTIVE and CK_ELIDE_UNLOCK_ADAPTIVE.
Primarily pushing this for the few that are playing with
master.
This is inspired by Andi Kleen's work for adaptive behavior
in the Linux kernel's RTM locks implementation. There are
various differences in the state machine, however. Specifically,
the concept of a retry and a busy-wait has been unified due
to state machine simplification such that any exhausted busy-wait
cycle reverts to a forfeit (a busy-wait is a specialized retry).
Follow-up work will involve allowing for is_locked behavior
to yield what users expect, if called from with-in a transaction
through the wrapper. It is warned that this will come at a performance
penalty.
Samy Al Bahra
Samy Al Bahra
Samy Al Bahra