Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC v1][PATCH]page_fault retry with NOPAGE_RETRY | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Date | Thu, 27 Nov 2008 13:32:36 +0100 |
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On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 14:21 +0200, Török Edwin wrote:
> How about distributing tasks to a set of worked threads, is the > overhead of using IPC instead of mutexes/cond variables acceptable?
Inter process pthread mutexes should be very fast in the latest kernels as they'll avoid the mmap_sem by use of get_user_pages_fast().
Not sure if pthread condition variables also work inter-process.
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