Re: [PATCH] futex: add FUTEX_SET_WAIT operation

Peter Zijlstra
2009-11-17T08:55:38Z

On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 09:18 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> Would you be interested in adding it as a 'perf bench futex' testcase?
> That way kernel developers could monitor futex performance in the future
> as well.
>
> See 'perf bench' in the latest perf events tree:
>
> http://people.redhat.com/mingo/tip.git/README
>
> Do 'cd tools/perf; make -j install' to install perf.

Darren has recently been putting a lot of effort in making a futex test
suite:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/dvhart/futextest.git

Its not yet complete, but hopefully it will soon be :-)