[aarch64-port-dev ] RFR: 8186671: Use `yield` instruction in SpinPause on linux-aarch64

[Andrew Haley]

On 24/08/17 20:16, Ivan Krylov wrote:
> I recall the discussion about the difference between x86 pause and ARM 
> Yield back when we did the original hotspot patch code review and we 
> never reached a conclusion back than.
> Looking at the charts that Dmitry provided it seems that the proposed 
> ARM implementation reaches the same goal.

How do you know what goal it reaches?  It's not been tried on a core that
implements YIELD.

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