Stefan Beller <sbel...@google.com> writes: > Not sure I follow there. > > Original implementation: > We have M threads sitting around the table, all of them trying to obtain food > from the one bowl on the table and then eating it. > Once the bowl is all eaten, we can stop. > > New pattern: > One cook puts all the food items on the sushi-go-round-belt with a fancy plate > and the threads grab them one by one still using locks (but they are internal > to > the belt). > > Are you saying we're content with just a bowl and everyone helps themselves > for getting food?
No. I am questioning how big overhead is for having the go-round-belt that must hold all dishes to be eaten, which did not exist in the original arrangement. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
