Thanks! Definitely it's something that I'd like to explore in our userland application such as Samba.
On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 11:08 AM, Robert Mustacchi <r...@joyent.com> wrote: > On 7/21/16 7:36 , Garrett D'Amore wrote: > > No. > > Strictly speaking, they don't require kernel support, so you should be > able to use them; however, they don't have entries in isainfo or in the > dis tables at this time. > > Given how few SKUs work with them and many of the gotchas that can cause > things to abort (say the use of the pid provider), not sure that they're > something I'd turn to. > > Robert > > >> On Jul 21, 2016, at 7:34 AM, Youzhong Yang <youzh...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> Just curious, is TSX supported in illumos? > >> > >> "Transactional Synchronization Extensions (TSX) is an extension to the > x86 instruction set architecture (ISA) that adds hardware transactional > memory support, speeding up execution of multi-threaded software through > lock elision. According to different benchmarks, TSX can provide around 40% > faster applications execution in specific workloads, and 4–5 times more > database transactions per second (TPS)." > >> > >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transactional_Synchronization_Extensions > >> > >> -youzhong > >> > >> smartos-discuss | Archives | Modify Your Subscription > > > > > > ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
