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nlytoday at 12:50 PM0 repliesview on HN

Once you use atomic cmpxchg you've lost a great deal of scalability because it implies a retry loop (internal or by the user)

The last thing you want is all of the threads failing to cmpxchg (spuriously or otherwise ) spinning on a shared cacheline

Real world alternatives show atomic xchg only solutions scale to hundreds of threads.