Re: [PATCH v3 0/5] Add NUMA-awareness to qspinlock

2019-07-16 Thread Nicholas Piggin
Alex Kogan's on July 17, 2019 12:45 am: > >> On Jul 16, 2019, at 7:47 AM, Nicholas Piggin wrote: >> >> Alex Kogan's on July 16, 2019 5:25 am: >>> Our evaluation shows that CNA also improves performance of user >>> applications that have hot pthread mutexes. Those mutexes are >>> blocking, and

Re: [PATCH v3 0/5] Add NUMA-awareness to qspinlock

2019-07-16 Thread Nicholas Piggin
Alex Kogan's on July 16, 2019 5:25 am: > Our evaluation shows that CNA also improves performance of user > applications that have hot pthread mutexes. Those mutexes are > blocking, and waiting threads park and unpark via the futex > mechanism in the kernel. Given that kernel futex chains, which