On 05/20/2015 09:19 AM, David Holmes wrote:
Not sure there was much context to begin with :-) best to look at the implementation: a spin value, initialized to SPINS, is (if > 0) decremented if the next value from a PRNG (Marsaglia-like) is non-negative.Not sure I grok why we would randomize the spin but ...
To better spread out delays to reduce future contention. It's analogous to randomized back-offs. -Doug
