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Date:      Tue, 4 Jul 2006 12:32:30 +0100 (BST)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
To:        David Xu <davidxu@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-performance@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Updated fine-grain locking patch for UNIX domain sockets
Message-ID:  <20060704123124.S44010@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060703134429.P57091@fledge.watson.org>
References:  <20060630001142.Y67344@fledge.watson.org> <200607030837.04685.davidxu@freebsd.org> <20060703134429.P57091@fledge.watson.org>

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On Mon, 3 Jul 2006, Robert Watson wrote:

> On Mon, 3 Jul 2006, David Xu wrote:
>
>> I found 5% performance decrease on dual P4, maybe P4 is quite bad when 
>> doing atomic operation. ;-) Thanks,
>
> When I've measured, generally, yes, P4 performance has been abysmal for 
> synchronization operations, both atomic operations and CPU-local interrupt 
> disabling, etc.
>
> I suspect rwlocks could use a bit of optimization in the contention case. 
> I've not dug into the code, so I'm not clear how they compare with respect 
> to adaptive behavior.

I ran some micro-benchmarks, and rwlocks don't perform substantially 
differently from sleep mutexes for uncontended operation -- I've not measured 
cost under contention, however.

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge



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