svn commit: r242402 - in head/sys: kern vm

Attilio Rao attilio at freebsd.org
Wed Oct 31 18:10:31 UTC 2012


On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 6:07 PM, Attilio Rao <attilio at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Author: attilio
> Date: Wed Oct 31 18:07:18 2012
> New Revision: 242402
> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/242402
>
> Log:
>   Rework the known mutexes to benefit about staying on their own
>   cache line in order to avoid manual frobbing but using
>   struct mtx_padalign.

Interested developers can now dig and look for other mutexes to
convert and just do it.
Please, however, try to enclose a description about the benchmark
which lead you believe the necessity to pad the mutex and possibly
some numbers, in particular when the lock belongs to structures or the
ABI itself.

Next steps involve porting the same mtx(9) changes to rwlock(9) and
port pvh global pmap lock to rwlock_padalign.

Thanks,
Attilio


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