FUTEX2 futex_waitv Wired Up For Other Architectures With Linux 5.16-rc3

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I like how the wine gaming use case has exposed a genuinely good reason to add a new syscall, something we rarely have these days.

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I find the prospect of futex2 being available on the itanic downright hilarious.

Hey; believe it or not there is still a significant install base of Itanium machines running fresh Linux, and many of them are doing pretty important work.

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I find the prospect of futex2 being available on the itanic downright hilarious.

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Phoronix: FUTEX2 futex_waitv Wired Up For Other Architectures With Linux 5.16-rc3

FUTEX2 as in the new futex_waitv system call landed in Linux 5.16 back during the merge window for improving the efficiency of running Windows games on Linux for those that rely on Windows' WaitForMultipleObjects functionality with futex_waitv is now the ability to wait on multiple futexes. That new system call is now supported on more architectures with the next Linux 5.16 release candidate...

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