From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 11 01:11:08 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 823F516A4CE; Wed, 11 May 2005 01:11:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.ntplx.net (mail.ntplx.net [204.213.176.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2587843D1F; Wed, 11 May 2005 01:11:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from deischen@freebsd.org) Received: from sea.ntplx.net (sea.ntplx.net [204.213.176.11]) j4B1Aqa3001799; Tue, 10 May 2005 21:10:52 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 21:10:52 -0400 (EDT) From: Daniel Eischen X-X-Sender: eischen@sea.ntplx.net To: Mikhail Teterin In-Reply-To: <200505102036.21194.mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-ID: Content-Disposition: INLINE X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS and Clam AntiVirus (mail.ntplx.net) cc: stable@freebsd.org cc: re@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PTHREAD_INVARIANTS in 5.x X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Daniel Eischen List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 01:11:08 -0000 On Tue, 10 May 2005, Mikhail Teterin wrote: > Hello! > > As we were counting down to 5.3-RELEASE, I noticed, that all threading > libraries still compile with PTHREAD_INVARIANTS. My suggestion to have this > fixed was shutdown as not enough time was left for testing the 5.3. > > 6 months later the much anticipated 5.4 ships with these defines again and > again FreeBSD is going to lose all thread-using benchmarks out there (such as > MySQL's)... > > Can we have these things turned off NOW, so that, at least, 5.5 stands a > chance? Thanks! What makes you think there is a measurable performance impact with them on? Regardless, it would first need to be in -current, not -stable. -- DE