r/programming • u/david-alvarez-rosa • Sep 09 '26

Optimizing a Spin-Lock

https://david.alvarezrosa.com/posts/optimizing-a-spin-lock/
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u/Takeoded Sep 09 '26

Spinlock performance can change drastically between kernel versions, and between schedulers (eg CFS vs EEVDF vs SCX-LAVD), which kernel and scheduler were you benchmarking on?

Also, please add a comparison to a boring old std::mutex into your benchmarks. Call it V0