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Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 11:53:10 +0200
From: Jens Gustedt <jens.gustedt@...ia.fr>
To: Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>
Cc: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Multi-threaded performance progress
Am Dienstag, den 26.08.2014, 17:36 -0400 schrieb Rich Felker:
> Fixing it should be trivial via the design I mentioned earlier: don't
> use a waiter flag like this, but instead offset the initial value of
> ref by +1 and a_dec it just before waiting. As in other places, of
> course, a wake to an invalid address is possible either way; this is
> "fixable" if necessary via FUTEX_WAKE_OP (having the kernel do the
> atomic dec after acquiring the futex bin locks).
generally it would be nice to have such a lock functionality that
takes care of the waiters inside the int itself, this could perhaps be
used in other places
> > Ok, I'll try to switch to one-step-at-a-time-mode.
>
> OK.
ok, so in a follow up I will send two patches that are the essence of
that. It doesn't do the booking from above, let's keep that for later.
Jens Gustedt (2):
Let the signaler do all work concerning consistency of the list
avoid taking _c_lock if we know it isn't necessary
src/thread/pthread_cond_timedwait.c | 62 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
1 file changed, 48 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
> > > Or, if you don't have time to spend on side projects like test
> > > cases, maybe someone else could test it?
> >
> > Not at the moment. I would prefer to have a C thread implementation by
> > the end of the week that we could agree upon.
>
> Yes, that would be very nice!
ok, so I will be turning back to that, and as said that will be a
version of C threads that use the POSIX lock structures transparently.
Jens
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