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    Phoronix: FUTEX2 Still Being Worked On For Benefiting Linux Gaming & Much More

    Proposed last summer by Valve and Collabora developers were extending the Linux kernel's futex system call to allow for more optimal thread pool synchronization and paired with Wine/Proton work to better match the semantics of Windows. That then spun into creating a new system call, futex2. With the recently closed Linux 5.9 merge window the new futex2 system call didn't land, but the work is still being pursued...

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    I think this is more important than people think it is.
    Anything that has todo with crazy threads and or async calls, this could help out quite a bit.

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