Manfred Spraul [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
>
> > lock contention work would be appreciated. I'm aware of timer scalability
> > work ongoing at people.redhat.com/mingo/scalable-timers, but is anyone
> > working on reducing sem_ids contention?
>
> Is that really a problem?
> The contention is high, but the actual lost time is quite small.
I agree it isn't a major performance problem under that workload. But, I
thought since the contention was high that other workloads which may
utilize it more might have shown it to be a significant problem.
> I've attached 2 changes that might reduce the contention, but it's just
> an idea, completely untested.
Thanks for the insight into the sempahore subsystem and the suggested fixes.
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Jonathan Lahr
IBM Linux Technology Center
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