Re: bisected: futex regression >= 3.14 - was - Slowdown due to threads bouncing between HT cores

From: Steinar H. Gunderson
Date: Sun Oct 26 2014 - 06:39:35 EST


On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 06:38:41PM +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
>>> Whew, good, futex.c is hard. Heads up chess guys <punt>.
>> I wonder whether the barrier fix which got into 3.17 late fixes that
>> issue as well.
> Yes, it did.

This is only about the lockup, right, not that the threads bounce around a
lot and make things slower?

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