Excerpts from Markus Wanner's message of mar jul 20 14:36:55 -0400 2010:
> > I'm also unconvinced that spinlocks are the best locking primitive here.
> > Why not lwlocks?
>
> It's derived from a completely lock-free algorithm, as proposed by Maged
> M. Michael in: Scalable Lock-Free Dynamic Memory Allocator.
Hmm, deriving code from a paper published by IBM sounds like bad news --
who knows what patents they hold on the techniques there?