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[Sergei Golubchik <serg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, Federico!

On Jan 21, Federico Razzoli wrote:
> While compiling MariaDB on FreeBSD, I've noted that it can optionally
> be compiled with spinlocks instead of mutexes. What's the best choice?
> Any experience?

Yes, this option enables MariaDB "fast mutexes".

They're disabled by default for years and completely removed in MySQL
(5.7 or 5.6? - don't remember) and in MariaDB 10.2.

Don't use them.

Regards,
Sergei
Chief Architect MariaDB
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