[PATCH] MAXCPU alterable in kernel config - needs testers

[Attilio Rao]

2006/10/9, Kip Macy <kmacy at fsmware.com>:
> >
> > How would you see a sched_lock decomposition (and, if it is possible,
> > how many locks it could be decomposed in?)
>
> Rather than having a per thread lock, Solaris uses the lock for the
> current container that a thread is associated with (cpu, run queue,
> sleep queue, etc.) to serialize thread updates. I think this is probably
> the best approach. A per proess spin lock would not scale well for large
> multi-threaded apps.

Yes, this is what I was thinking to.
Maybe sched_lock could be reworked when all the other issues about
SMPng would be closed.
IIRC, somebody was speaking about the starting of a new project which
was related to the analisys and decomposition of the more contentive
locks.

Attilio


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