On Sun, 2013-12-01 at 13:46 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 12:39 PM, Eric Dumazet <eric.duma...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Last time I checked, private futexes were used when appropriate. > > > > "strace -e futex" mainly show _PRIVATE uses. > > Yeah, pthread mutexes seem to do it.
Yes, the default was changed to _PRIVATE for pthreads in glibc several years back (2007 iirc). The performance benefits were significant. -- Darren Hart Intel Open Source Technology Center Yocto Project - Linux Kernel -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/