Re: scalability of signal delivery for Posix Threads

[Ray Bryant <raybry@sgi.com>]

Robin Holt wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 09:51:15AM -0600, Ray Bryant wrote:
> 
>>We've encountered a scalability problem with signal delivery.  Our 
>>application
>>is attempting to use ITIMER_PROF to deliver one signal per clock tick to 
>>each
>>thread of a ptrheaded (NPTL).  These threads are created with CLONE_SIGHAND,
>>so that there is a single sighand->siglock for the entire application.
> 
> 
> Ray, can you provide a simple example application that trips this case?

I'll do that, but it may be after the Thanksgiving holiday when I get it
out to the mailing list.  It's a minor thing, but the test we are using
now is an OpenMP application (written in .c) and I'd propose rewriting
it using POSIX threads without OpenMP for a more general audience

-- 
Best Regards,
Ray
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