Re: [RFC] NUMA futex hashing

Nick Piggin
2006-08-08T16:26:49Z

Nick Piggin wrote:

> No we shouldn't slow them down. I'd be interested to see whether
> locking is significantly sped up with this new data structure,
> though.

OTOH, maybe you don't need a new data structure. Maybe you could
use the hash and check that for a match on a private futex before
trying to find a possible shared futex.

Locking I guess becomes no more of a problem than now, and in some
cases maybe much less. So OK, I stand corrected.

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