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A comment on Jemalloc 5.4.0. Parent comment

Re:Jemalloc 5.4.0 by ckennelly on Friday September 18, 2026 @08:36PM (#49762138)
With restartable sequences in Linux, there is no need for mutexes or RMW atomics. The mutual exclusion is guaranteed by the kernel.
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Re:Jemalloc 5.4.0 by loeg on Saturday September 19, 2026 @12:35AM (#49763337)
Fair enough.
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