Manfred,
> How complicated are Tom's test scripts? His immediate reply was that I
> should retest with Fedora, to rule out any gentoo bugs.
We've done some testing on other Linux. Linking in pthreads reduced CSes by
< 15%, which was no appreciable impact on real performance.
Gavin/Neil's full futex patch was of greater benefit; while it did not reduce
CSes very much (25%) somehow the real performance benefit was greater.
--
Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco
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