Linux Torvalds confessed that he'd love ... The correctness comes from just straight up implementing Windows style synchronization semantics in a kernel module rather than trying to jury-rig ...

In brief: Valve is proposing changes to the Linux ... in-process synchronization primitives" and reduces CPU usage more than esync. However, because it requires the use of the kernel's eventfd ...

Both Microsoft and the Linux kernel teams have added ways to disable support for Intel Transactional Synchronization Extensions (TSX). TSX is the Intel technology that opens the company's CPUs to ...