The search for the correct amount of split-lock misery
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Unlike many other architectures, x86 systems support atomic operations that affect more than on [...]
  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    3 days ago

    It still has the performance impact for the rest of the system if one re-enables it.

    • jarfil@beehaw.org
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      3 days ago

      As long as you can re-disable it after playing the game…

      I know, all background processes get impacted during gameplay, but that was the case already. The popup can explain the tradeoff, and who’s to blame (game dev).