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Mutexes Are Faster Than Spinlocks
| | readrust.net
Performance - Read Rust
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| | Read Rust collects and categorises interesting posts related to the Rust programming language. This page lists posts in the Performance category.
| | lwn.net
Local locks in the kernel [LWN.net]
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| | The Linux kernel has never lacked for synchronization primitives and locking mechanisms, so one [...]
| | probablydance.com
Fine-grained Locking with Two-Bit Mutexes | Probably Dance
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| | Lets say you want to have a mutex for every item in a list with 10k elements. It feels a bit wasteful to use a std::mutex for each of those elements. In Linux std::mutex is 40 bytes, in Windows it's 80 bytes. But mutexes don't need to be that big. You can fit a mutex...
| | mazzo.li
Reliably allocating huge pages in Linux
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| Let's say that you have a program which relies on huge pages for performance. I couldn't find a resource fully explaining how to allocate huge pages at runtime, making sure that the huge page allocation was successful, so here it is.