Re: Poor thread performance on Linux vs. Solaris

On Thursday 04 September 2003 8:36 pm, Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky wrote:

> > From: Bill Soudan [mailto:[email protected]]
> >
> > 4) try to eliminate the global locks in the kernel/futex.c file.  I'm
> > afraid it might not be that easy though - the weird freeze make me
> > wonder if the scheduler may play a role here as well.
>
> A coworker of mine played with the notion of removing global lock
> for the futexes, replacing it with a per-hash-queue lock. He did it
> on our rtfutex patch, and I don't know how easy would it be for
> the mainstream futexes to adapt, but it might be worth a try; it
> will not resolve fully the problem, but it might help a lot.

Any chance I could get my hands on this code?  From the list archives, I 
found this link:

http://developer.osdl.org/dev/robustmutexes/

but the rtfutex code I found still has the global lock.  Am I looking in 
the wrong place, or is this unreleased code?

Bill


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