From: Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
hch@infradead.org, torvalds@transmeta.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] clone_startup(), 2.5.31-A0
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 19:47:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020814194702.B26404@kushida.apsleyroad.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020814234824.08faf190.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>; from rusty@rustcorp.com.au on Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 11:48:24PM +1000
Rusty Russell wrote:
> > btw., with the help of these syscalls and futexes, the layer between Linux
> > and pthreads became very thin - almost nonexistant in the majority of
> > cases.
>
> Woohoo!
Yes, futexes are wonderful, if quite difficult to figure out at first.
(I still haven't understood why the futex example reader-writer locks are
they way are.)
Even things like waitpid() are potentially faster with futexes -- no pid
to lookup!
-- Jamie
prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-14 18:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-13 15:09 [patch] clone_startup(), 2.5.31-A0 Ingo Molnar
2002-08-13 15:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-13 15:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-08-13 16:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-13 16:05 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-08-13 16:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-13 18:32 ` [patch] CLONE_SETTLS, CLONE_SETTID, 2.5.31-BK Ingo Molnar
2002-08-13 18:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-13 19:09 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-08-13 19:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-13 19:41 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-08-13 19:35 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-08-15 22:38 ` [patch] complain about unknown CLONE_* flags Jamie Lokier
2002-08-16 10:17 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-11-02 5:55 ` Pavel Machek
2002-08-13 16:09 ` [patch] clone_startup(), 2.5.31-A0 Erik Andersen
2002-08-13 16:11 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-08-13 16:32 ` David Mosberger
2002-08-13 16:44 ` John Levon
2002-08-13 19:52 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-08-13 20:19 ` David Mosberger
2002-08-13 20:27 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-08-13 20:52 ` David Mosberger
2002-08-13 20:57 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-08-13 16:56 ` Ruth Ivimey-Cook
2002-08-13 17:42 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-08-13 17:19 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-08-13 20:35 ` Kai Henningsen
2002-08-15 21:24 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-08-13 17:27 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-08-14 13:48 ` Rusty Russell
2002-08-14 18:47 ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
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