Re: first little problem with private futexes

[Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>]

Ulrich Drepper a écrit :
> On 5/20/07, Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> wrote:
>> > 1.  do nothing, always use the shared futexes.  Not very attractive IMO
>>
>> Why do you find this non attractive ?
>>
>> How is it performance critical ?
> 
> You should know better than any other that the problem is not that the
> problem itself is the only one affected.  If threads terminate all
> other programs and threads are affected since the global locks for the
> shared futexes are needed.  That's the case I'm concerned about.  It's
> not really about a single app creating many many threads over and over
> again.  It's about many apps which do use threads (and that number
> will have to rise) starts and stop threads at a reasonable rate.  It's
> just one more unnecessary point of contact between concurrently
> running apps.

Well, current private futex code still use global locks (one common hash table 
were all waited futexes are queued, private or shared)

'Only' mmap_sem and inode/mm refcounter inc/dec are avoided.

My proposal of having separate namespace was hold, in order to get the 
'private futexes' accepted in kernel.

So for the moment, I am not sure glibc should try to optimize CLEARTID operation.