A Huawei engineer has sent out patches proposing HQspinlock as a Hierarchical Queued NUMA-aware spinlock for the Linux kernel. HQspinlock aims to addresss inefficiencies within the Linux kernel's spinlock on modern NUMA-systems due to frequent and costly cross-NUMA cache-line transfers...
Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/HQspinlock-RFC-Patches
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Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/HQspinlock-RFC-Patches
Aggregated via LinuxNews.net
