Gaetano,
> I knew there was an evaluation on the futex vs spinlock,
> and Josh Berkus on IRC told me that there was only a 20%
> performance increase, is this increase to throw away ?
Before we get totally off track here ....
I evaluated futexes strictly as an attempt to solve the context switch storm
bug. I did NOT test whether they improved performance overall.
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Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco
