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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2.6.20-rc4 0/4] futexes functionalities and improvements
Ingo Molnar a écrit :
> * Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>>> what do you mean by that - which is this same resource?
>> From what has been said here before, all futexes are stored in the
>> same list or hash table or whatever it was. I want to see how that
>> code behaves if many separate processes concurrently use futexes.
>
> futexes are stored in the bucket hash, and these patches do not change
> that. The pi-list that was talked about is per-futex. So there's no
> change to the way futexes are hashed nor should there be any scalability
> impact - besides the micro-impact that was measured in a number of ways
> - AFAICS.

Yes, that's completely right !

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Pierre
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