C++ constructor calling futex_wake then _spin_lock

[Florian Weimer]

On 07/10/2012 03:54 AM, "Xavier R. Guérin" wrote:

> I am experimenting with RAII for locks and uses a stack object to initialize a lock. While this method is very practical, using it on the critical path of my application shows extremely strange behaviors.
>
> It looks like somehow kernel spin locks, through futex, are involved during the construction and destruction of my RAII locker. Is this an expected behavior? It's rather counter intuitive and extremely expensive (70% CPU time with multiple threads).


Pthreads mutexes use kernel facilities for parking threads which cannot 
acquire a mutex, so this behavior is expected for contended mutexes. 
Avoid contention and execution will stay in user space.

I don't quite see how this is related to libstdc++, though.

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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security Team