Re: condvar performance in .59 vs .60

Ulrich Drepper <[email protected]> Thu, 02 Oct 2003 22:41:47 -0700

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.lib.phil
Organization	Red Hat, Inc.
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Jamie Lokier wrote:

> A synchronous wakeup is like that.  If you can use requeue now,
> there's no need for it, although perhaps some userspace applications
> would appreciate being able to unblock a mutex or whatever without
> being preempted immediately?

It would definitely be worth a try.  I think many (most?) applications
would benefit from the waker continue to run.

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