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spin in sem_[timed]wait before performing futex wait

empirically, this increases the maximum rate of wait/post operations
between two threads by 20-150 times on machines I tested, including
x86 and arm. conceptually, it makes sense to do some spinning because
semaphores are intended to be usable as a notification mechanism
between threads, not just as locks, and low-latency notification is a
valuable property to have.
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Rich Felker 12 years ago
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      src/thread/sem_timedwait.c

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src/thread/sem_timedwait.c

@ -8,6 +8,11 @@ static void cleanup(void *p)
int sem_timedwait(sem_t *restrict sem, const struct timespec *restrict at)
{
if (!sem_trywait(sem)) return 0;
int spins = 100;
while (spins-- && sem->__val[0] <= 0) a_spin();
while (sem_trywait(sem)) {
int r;
a_inc(sem->__val+1);

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