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trebligdivad 3 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Investigating Split Locks on x86-64

I suspect it's the risk of deadlocks and perhaps they have no easy way to avoid it.

zeusk 3 months ago [–]

ordering lock acquisition is a tested strategy to avoid deadlocks; so locking the cache lines sorted by PA would cover that?

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