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Improve machine_pause on arm64 #1368

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On arm64 isb (instruction synchronization barrier) is better to use than yield in a spin loop. The yield instruction is a nop. The isb instruction puts the processor to sleep for some short time by flushing the pipeline. isb is a good equivalent to the pause instruction on x86.

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Signed-off-by: pavelkumbrasev <[email protected]>
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LGTM

@pavelkumbrasev pavelkumbrasev merged commit 3420fb9 into master Apr 25, 2024
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@pavelkumbrasev pavelkumbrasev deleted the dev/pavelkumbrasev/improve_arm64_loop_backoff branch April 25, 2024 12:51
sarathnandu pushed a commit that referenced this pull request May 8, 2024
Signed-off-by: pavelkumbrasev <[email protected]>
(cherry picked from commit 3420fb9)
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