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Date:      Sat, 21 Apr 2001 08:25:42 -0700
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Zach Brown <zab@zabbo.net>
Cc:        Jef Poskanzer <jef@acme.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: thttpd hack for sendfile and accept filters.
Message-ID:  <20010421082542.P1790@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <20010421110308.C8818@erasmus.off.net>; from zab@zabbo.net on Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 11:03:08AM -0400
References:  <200104201611.JAA95537@bomb.acme.com> <20010420093349.X1790@fw.wintelcom.net> <20010421094738.B7494@erasmus.off.net> <20010421074811.O1790@fw.wintelcom.net> <20010421110308.C8818@erasmus.off.net>

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* Zach Brown <zab@zabbo.net> [010421 08:03] wrote:
> > > or so the numbers have lead me to beleive.  Its still an annoying
> > > design, but has someone come up with real numbers to show that accept()
> > > hurding is a problem for waiters that do real work after accept() ?
> > 
> > Accept herding isn't a problem under FreeBSD because the kernel doesn't
> > allow it to happen.
> 
> yes, as was previously mentioned.  linux has also had "exclusive" wait
> queues for quite some time, but thats not the point either :)

Linux has had them for under a year.  In fact that was a major presentation
at the last USENIX.

> I wasn't asking how the problem was handled in the kernel, but
> whether people have ever found profiles of meaningful workloads the show
> it being a problem.  sorry if that wasn't clear.

I don't understand what you're asking.

If it's handled in the kernel then it can't be a problem.

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