"Min Xu (Hsu)" <xu(at)cs(dot)wisc(dot)edu> writes:
> ...If this were the case, perhaps first fetch the spin lock with read-only
> permission should have helped.
But the cmpb instruction in the 8.0 version of TAS would have done that,
and I think we've already established that the cmpb is a loss on most
machines (except maybe single-physical-CPU Xeons). I suggested in my
other message that it might help to grab write permission on the cache
line before actually trying to acquire the spin lock --- but I don't see
how getting read-only permission first will help.
regards, tom lane