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Comment-OP here - this is also more or less my use case. Whether there is a use case for spinlocks outside low-latency trading, i have no idea!

• anonymoushn 7y ago
  a friend of mine recently told me how Windows schedules cpu-bound threads to different cores to prevent thermal throttling, so I now wonder if we were mucking things up by running our CPUs too hot
  • loeg 7y ago
    If you weren't pegging thermal max you shouldn't be seeing thermal limiting. Although you're probably right that cooling is something software people are more likely overlook than SRE/hardware/lab folks.
  • gpderetta 7y ago
    Liquid cooling is not unheard of in the low latency trading world.
• kortilla 7y ago
  High performance networking in general (NFV) frequently relies on cores dedicated to dpdk for the this.
• AstralStorm 7y ago
  Software industrial process control, such as motors and let robotics. The longer latencies make the control loop less responsive or unstable. Microseconds granularity is very useful there.