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* lock: use spinlock only on multicore systemsPrasanna Kumar Kalever2016-03-171-0/+28
Using spinlocks on a single-core system makes usually no meaning, since as long as the spinlock polling is blocking the only available CPU core, no other thread can run and since no other thread can run, the lock won't be unlocked until its time quantum expires and it gets de-scheduled. In other words, a spinlock wastes CPU time on those systems for no real benefit. If the thread was put to sleep instead, another thread could have ran at once, possibly unlocking the lock and then allowing the first thread to continue processing, once it woke up again. Change-Id: I0ffc14e26c2e150b564bcb682a576859ab1d1872 BUG: 1306807 Signed-off-by: Prasanna Kumar Kalever <prasanna.kalever@redhat.com> Reviewed-on: http://review.gluster.org/13432 Smoke: Gluster Build System <jenkins@build.gluster.com> NetBSD-regression: NetBSD Build System <jenkins@build.gluster.org> CentOS-regression: Gluster Build System <jenkins@build.gluster.com> Reviewed-by: Jeff Darcy <jdarcy@redhat.com>