RFR: Locked allocation

[Andrew Haley]

On 15/12/16 11:55, Aleksey Shipilev wrote:

> Think about this as coarsening the current juggling-the-knives
> lock-free mechanics with a spinlocked entry to the small critical
> section. We are not expected to do any heavy-lifting while holding
> that lock. This minimizes the need for sophisticated backoffs,
> etc. Pretty much how we don't usually think about backoffs with
> lock-free update code :)

OK.

Andrew.