On Mon, 2013-12-16 at 11:08 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Davidlohr Bueso <davidl...@hp.com> wrote: > > > This patchset adds three programs that stress and measure different > > futex operations: (i) uaddr hashing, (ii) wakeups and (iii) > > requeuing/waiting. > > > > More details and usage examples in each individual patch, along with > > parameter descriptions in the code. > > > > While the previous effort (https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/5/17/207) to > > add futex benchmarks to perf-bench failed, I strongly believe that > > perf is an ideal place for these kinds of programs. This patchset is > > different from Hitoshi's because it does not try to take over > > Darren's futextest suite, and only deals with finer grained aspects > > of the kernel's implementation, and thus mostly useful for kernel > > hacking. Furthermore, by being part of the kernel tree, it can get > > more attention and naturally evolve with time. > > Looks pretty useful! > > Could the two approaches be merged?
Unless Darren doesn't want to, I don't see why not. I can resurrect Hitoshi's original patch if/after this series is applied. Thanks, Davidlohr -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
