Spin Loop Hint support: Draft JEP proposal (original) (raw)
Andrew Haley aph at redhat.com
Wed Oct 7 15:49:49 UTC 2015
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On 10/07/2015 04:45 PM, Gil Tene wrote:
In any case, even if it were user-mode-accessible, MWAIT may not appropriate for latency-sensitive spinning because it can apparently take 1000s of cycles to come out of the C-state modes it goes into.
Oh, yuck. OK, forget it.
Thanks, Andrew.
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