From owner-freebsd-threads@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 19 05:05:59 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-threads@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1BE216A4CE for ; Thu, 19 Feb 2004 05:05:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.pcnet.com (mail.pcnet.com [204.213.232.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68CE743D1F for ; Thu, 19 Feb 2004 05:05:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eischen@vigrid.com) Received: from mail.pcnet.com (mail.pcnet.com [204.213.232.4]) by mail.pcnet.com (8.12.10/8.12.1) with ESMTP id i1JD5vSQ024471; Thu, 19 Feb 2004 08:05:57 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 08:05:57 -0500 (EST) From: Daniel Eischen X-Sender: eischen@pcnet5.pcnet.com To: Mike Makonnen In-Reply-To: <20040219062850.GC1074@mobile.acs-et.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-threads@freebsd.org Subject: Re: libthr patch X-BeenThere: freebsd-threads@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Threading on FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 13:05:59 -0000 On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Mike Makonnen wrote: > Hello folks, > > The following patch stops libthr from using signals for syncronizng threads. > I've tested it localy and have seen *really large* performance > improvements in heavy thread/mutex contention situations. I'm interested > in hearing your experiences. If you used KSEs, you could use kse_release() and kse_wakeup() :-) :-) -- Dan