Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 30 Oct 1997 11:35:08 -0700 (MST) | | From | teunis <> | | Subject | Re: Unix domain sockets being slooooooooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwww | |
> > with low contention cases use spinlocks, shared memory and signals. The
> > locks are arch specific, but thats easily localised
>
> Signals are _very_ slow way of notifying the other one that he has
> some data. And shared memory does not allow me to do safe messaging
> between different users. Too bad.
personally (in userspace) I use spinlocks (SMP ones :) and shared memory
(and volatile variables when necessary) to handle memory locking in
multiple threads... should work for SysV-shared memory too :)
Any comments? Suggestions? (Flames? *grin*)
- Teunis
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