From: LaMont Jones <lamont@hp.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: sieler@allegro.com (Stan Sieler), matthew@wil.cx (Matthew Wilcox),
jes@linuxcare.com (Jes Sorensen),
alan@linuxcare.com.au (Alan Modra),
jsm@udlkern.fc.hp.com (John Marvin),
parisc-linux@thepuffingroup.com, lamont@hp.com
Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] ldcw in __pthread_acquire
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 21:18:25 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001217041834.39E581872C@security.hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 17 Dec 2000 02:38:10 GMT." <E147TiI-0003X1-00@the-village.bc.nu>
> Thats how Mozilla does it, and with a short spin in user space performance
> is way higher than always bugging the kernel
The hp-ux implementation of msem_lock() takes the advantages of both:
Gateway to kernel mode (very light weight - one predicted branch beyond
the function call), and then it does the spin and wait as needed. Very
low cost, with the kernel-mode blocking easier to do that a combined
user-and-kernel-mode implementation.
Just my $.02,
lamont
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-12-17 4:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-12-15 10:12 [parisc-linux] ldcw in __pthread_acquire John Marvin
2000-12-15 11:37 ` Alan Modra
2000-12-15 16:37 ` Matthew Wilcox
2000-12-15 17:32 ` Jes Sorensen
2000-12-16 19:29 ` Matthew Wilcox
2000-12-16 21:58 ` Jes Sorensen
2000-12-17 4:31 ` Alan Modra
2000-12-17 1:22 ` Stan Sieler
2000-12-17 2:38 ` Alan Cox
2000-12-17 4:18 ` LaMont Jones [this message]
2000-12-18 0:29 ` Stan Sieler
2000-12-18 0:36 ` Alan Cox
2000-12-18 0:48 ` Stan Sieler
2000-12-18 0:59 ` Alan Cox
2000-12-18 4:43 ` LaMont Jones
2000-12-18 11:53 ` Alan Cox
2000-12-18 12:27 ` Philippe Benard
2000-12-18 14:40 ` LaMont Jones
2000-12-18 19:44 ` Stan Sieler
2000-12-18 19:54 ` Alan Cox
2000-12-18 20:15 ` Stan Sieler
2000-12-18 20:44 ` LaMont Jones
2000-12-18 21:56 ` Alan Cox
2000-12-18 22:26 ` LaMont Jones
2000-12-18 7:10 ` Philippe Benard
2000-12-18 12:06 ` Alan Cox
2000-12-18 14:49 ` LaMont Jones
2000-12-18 15:59 ` Matthew Wilcox
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2000-12-15 10:26 John Marvin
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