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Add a spin loop hint for Arc::downgrade - #76649

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Adds hint::spin_loop() to the case where Arc::downgrade spins.

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Will this affect performance? Or improve it somehow?

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It will hint to the proccessor that there will be a spin loop, using for example the PAUSE instruction:

Worst case, this boils down to a no-op and speed isn't affected.
Best case, processor enters low-power mode, which saves lots of time and energy that would be spent doing basically nothing in a loop. Also, it reduces the chances for contention on the atomic unlock operation if it is done by another processor, which could slightly increase performace.

This stackoverflow answer provides some more reasoning on what it will do

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Most usages of hint::spin_loop that I've seen first spin without the hint, and only use it after a few iterations. For example: here in parking_lot. Edit: Nope. I misread that.

However, the Intel optimization manual advises to always insert the spin loop hint (the PAUSE instruction) like this PR does, and has no mention of delaying its use. Not sure about other processors/architectures.

@Amanieu With your experience from parking_lot, do you have an opinion on this?

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That's not what that code does: it first spins with PAUSE and then after a few iterations switches to sched_yield.

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That's not what that code does: it first spins with PAUSE and then after a few iterations switches to sched_yield.

Oops, apparently I misread. Thanks!

In that case:

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Oh, can you first remove the merge commit by rebasing/squashing?

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📌 Commit 929f80e has been approved by m-ou-se

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Rollup of 15 pull requests
Successful merges:
- rust-lang#76649 (Add a spin loop hint for Arc::downgrade)
- rust-lang#77392 (add `insert` to `Option`)
- rust-lang#77716 (Revert "Allow dynamic linking for iOS/tvOS targets.")
- rust-lang#78109 (Check for exhaustion in RangeInclusive::contains and slicing)
- rust-lang#78198 (Simplify assert terminator only if condition evaluates to expected value)
- rust-lang#78243 (--test-args flag description)
- rust-lang#78249 (improve const infer error)
- rust-lang#78250 (Document inline-const)
- rust-lang#78264 (Add regression test for issue-77475)
- rust-lang#78274 (Update description of Empty Enum for accuracy)
- rust-lang#78278 (move `visit_predicate` into `TypeVisitor`)
- rust-lang#78292 (Loop instead of recursion)
- rust-lang#78293 (Always store Rustdoc theme when it's changed)
- rust-lang#78300 (Make codegen coverage_context optional, and check)
- rust-lang#78307 (Revert "Set .llvmbc and .llvmcmd sections as allocatable")
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