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Eric Dumazet wrote: > Hi > > I'm pleased to present these patches which improve linux futex performance and > scalability, on both UP, SMP and NUMA configs. > > I had this idea last year but I was not understood, probably because I gave > not enough explanations. Sorry if this mail is really long... Yes please, this is really nice. The mmap_sem is already overworked just doing real mm stuff, let alone making it the central point of our "scalable" thread synchronisation syscall. To summarise: not only will this make futexes scale much better, but it will also take some load off mmap_sem. -- SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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