* Zach Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010421 08:03] wrote:
> > > or so the numbers have lead me to beleive. Its still an annoying
> > > design, but has someone come up with real numbers to show that accept()
> > > hurding is a problem for waiters that do real work after accept() ?
> >
> > Accept herding isn't a problem under FreeBSD because the kernel doesn't
> > allow it to happen.
>
> yes, as was previously mentioned. linux has also had "exclusive" wait
> queues for quite some time, but thats not the point either :)
Linux has had them for under a year. In fact that was a major presentation
at the last USENIX.
> I wasn't asking how the problem was handled in the kernel, but
> whether people have ever found profiles of meaningful workloads the show
> it being a problem. sorry if that wasn't clear.
I don't understand what you're asking.
If it's handled in the kernel then it can't be a problem.
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