* Ling Ma <[email protected]> wrote:
> > So it would be nice to create a new user-space spinlock testing facility,
> > via
> > a new 'perf bench spinlock' feature or so. That way others can test and
> > validate your results on different hardware as well.
>
> Attached the spinlock test module . Queued spinlock will run very slowly in
> user
> space because process switch context, it is OK for spinlock-test
> implementation
> with kernel module ?
Not sure what you mean by 'because process switch context': if you pin the test
tasks to individual CPUs and make sure there's nothing else running it should
be
equivalent to kernel-space execution.
Thanks,
Ingo
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