If you are using a mutex to guarantee real-time scheduling requirements, you have failed. Furthermore if you think a discussion about benchmarking an algorithm

If you are using a mutex to guarantee real-time scheduling requirements, you have failed. Furthermore if you think a discussion about benchmarking an algorithm on a 24-core SMP system involving atomic reads, writes and shared caches has nothing to do with parallelism then let's just agree to disagree with one another and I wish you all the best in your programming endeavors. People can decide for themselves what credibility they wish to lend to your argument given your perspective on this matter.