PI mutex support for pthread_cond_* now in nptl

Andi Kleen andi@firstfloor.org
Fri Feb 22 04:11:00 GMT 2013


Torvald Riegel <triegel@redhat.com> writes:

> On a related note: What are the reasons to have arch-specific assembler
> versions of many of the synchronization operations?  I would be
> surprised if they'd provide a significant performance advantage; has
> anyone recent measurements for this?

Yes changing the x86 assembler code is a big pain and I bet it prevents
a lot of optimizations because it's hard to change.

-Andi

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