cvs commit: src/lib/libthr/thread thr_pspinlock.c
Jason Evans
jasone at freebsd.org
Tue Oct 16 11:11:25 PDT 2007
Kris Kennaway wrote:
> David Xu wrote:
>> FreeBSD src repository
>>
>> Modified files:
>> lib/libthr/thread thr_pspinlock.c Log:
>> Reverse the logic of UP and SMP.
>> Submitted by: jasone
>> Revision Changes Path
>> 1.6 +1 -1 src/lib/libthr/thread/thr_pspinlock.c
>
> Are there any common applications that use this?
It's worth mentioning that this change, although correct, does not make
a measurable performance difference for the tests I was running when I
found the bug. It is possible that making the spinlocks adaptive would
help, but I didn't look into this.
(I was working on malloc performance enhancements that have turned out
very nicely, but in the end I had to switch to hand-rolled "spin"
mutexes that eventually convert to blocking, in order to avoid the
possibility of unrecoverable priority inversion.)
Jason
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