New libc malloc patch
Jason Evans
jasone at canonware.com
Sat Dec 3 13:10:20 PST 2005
On Dec 3, 2005, at 12:26 AM, David Xu wrote:
> I have a question about mutex used in the patch, you are using
> a spin loop, isn't it suboptimal ? and a thread library like
> libpthread
> supports static priority scheduling, this mutex does not work, it
> will causes a dead lock, if a lower priority thread locked the mutex,
> and preempted by a higher priority thread, and the higher priority
> thread also calls malloc, it will spin there to wait lower
> priority thread to complete, but that will never happen.
David,
You are correct that this is a problem. Thank you for pointing it
out. There's a new patch that uses the spinlocks that are provided
by the threads libraries. Please let me know if this looks okay.
Also, this patch removes/modifies the code that was causing build
failures on amd64, so it's worth giving another try. Hopefully, it
will compile now...
http://www.canonware.com/~jasone/jemalloc/jemalloc_20051203a.diff
Thanks,
Jason
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