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Re: malloc() and spinlocks
- From: Wolfram Gloger <Wolfram dot Gloger at dent dot med dot uni-muenchen dot de>
- To: aj at suse dot de
- Cc: libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 11:38:50 +0100 ("MET)
- Subject: Re: malloc() and spinlocks
- References: <200211251733.14550.l.lunak@suse.cz><200211261345.OAA22431@max.zk-i.med.uni-muenchen.de> <hoel7h9xtv.fsf@byrd.suse.de>
> This patch is still not in glibc as far as I can see. Wolfram, what
> should happen with it?
I've still got on my TODO to check how NPTL handles fast inline
spinlocks, to avoid that \approx1.5% penalty for the single-threaded
case. As I said, the patch could also be applied as-is to get the
\approx10% improvement for the threaded case on ix86.
Regards,
Wolfram.