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| H A D | _mutex.h | diff 242395 Wed Oct 31 11:45:13 MDT 2012 attilio Give mtx(9) the ability to crunch different type of structures, with the only constraint that they have a lock cookie named mtx_lock. This name, then, becames reserved from the struct that wants to use the mtx(9) KPI and other locking primitives cannot reuse it for their members. Namely such structs are the current struct mtx and the new struct mtx_padalign. The new structure will define an object which is the same as the same layout of a struct mtx but will be allocated in areas aligned to the cache line size and will be as big as a cache line. This is supposed to give higher performance for highly contented mutexes both spin or sleep (because of the adaptive spinning), where the cache line contention results in too much traffic on the system bus. The struct mtx_padalign can be used in a completely transparent way with the mtx(9) KPI. At the moment, a possibility to MFC the patch should be carefully evaluated because this patch breaks the low level KPI (not its representation though). Discussed with: jhb Reviewed by: jeff, andre Reviewed by: mdf (earlier version) Tested by: jimharris |
| H A D | mutex.h | diff 242395 Wed Oct 31 11:45:13 MDT 2012 attilio Give mtx(9) the ability to crunch different type of structures, with the only constraint that they have a lock cookie named mtx_lock. This name, then, becames reserved from the struct that wants to use the mtx(9) KPI and other locking primitives cannot reuse it for their members. Namely such structs are the current struct mtx and the new struct mtx_padalign. The new structure will define an object which is the same as the same layout of a struct mtx but will be allocated in areas aligned to the cache line size and will be as big as a cache line. This is supposed to give higher performance for highly contented mutexes both spin or sleep (because of the adaptive spinning), where the cache line contention results in too much traffic on the system bus. The struct mtx_padalign can be used in a completely transparent way with the mtx(9) KPI. At the moment, a possibility to MFC the patch should be carefully evaluated because this patch breaks the low level KPI (not its representation though). Discussed with: jhb Reviewed by: jeff, andre Reviewed by: mdf (earlier version) Tested by: jimharris |
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