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Re: Dummy pthread functions in libc considered harmful
- From: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
- To: Alexander Monakov <amonakov at ispras dot ru>, OndÅej BÃlka <neleai at seznam dot cz>
- Cc: Rich Felker <dalias at libc dot org>, Samuel Thibault <samuel dot thibault at ens-lyon dot org>, Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 16:37:25 +0200
- Subject: Re: Dummy pthread functions in libc considered harmful
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On 08/25/2015 03:01 PM, Alexander Monakov wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Aug 2015, Ondřej Bílka wrote:
>> As we internally already have SINGLE_THREAD_P optimization we should use
>> that optimization for all atomics and locks and get slower path only
>> when there is some thread created.
>>
>> We could export that variable for gcc to also speed up atomics.
>
> It's not possible to use "current process is single-threaded" predicate to
> optimize atomics: they might be operating on shared memory.
Such mutexes must be marked as process-shared, and therefore, the
optimization could be skipped for them, I think.
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