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port-arm/52666: ARM spinlocks are suboptimal
>Number: 52666
>Category: port-arm
>Synopsis: ARM spinlocks are suboptimal
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: port-arm-maintainer
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Sat Oct 28 18:40:00 +0000 2017
>Originator: coypu
>Release: NetBSD 8.99.5
>Organization:
>Environment:
NetBSD 8.99.5
>Description:
newer ARM has an instruction 'wfe' essentially made for spinlocks. we should use it, but I don't see a relevant use of it, only an unused macro.
(In fact only x86 has a spinlock backoff function).
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
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