Better choice for Linux semaphore than spinlock?

Folks:

From a Subversion user:

“... we have very high concurrent connections to Subversion that seem to
crater Subversion. The SVN Serve process we use to access the Subversion
repository is using the “svn” protocol by our “system user”, mostly
read-only. Then, we, on behalf of the user make request to Subversion
using the “http” protocol to fetch their data. So we have lots of
connections to Subversion. But the volume of concurrent requests over the
“svn” protocol cause the “svnserve” process to consume CPU cycles in a
kernel “mutex-lock” which is implemented using “spin locks”. The “svnserve”
process makes the mutex calls using the “apache” (APR) semaphore wait
calls, but on Linux this is a “mutext-lock” request.”

So is there a better, more scalable, semaphore that can be used?

Cheers.

Doug

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