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Subject: Re: [tbench regression fixes]: digging out smelly deadmen.
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=46rom: "Ilpo J=E4rvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 11:40:16 +0200 (EET)

> Let me remind that it is just a single process, so no ping-pong & oth=
er=20
> lock related cache effects should play any significant role here, no?=
 (I'm=20
> no expert though :-)).

Not locks or ping-pongs perhaps, I guess.  So it just sends and
receives over a socket, implementing both ends of the communication
in the same process?

If hash chain conflicts do happen for those 2 sockets, just traversing
the chain 2 entries deep could show up.