Re: [PATCH] futex: add FUTEX_SET_WAIT operation

[Ingo Molnar]

* Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 09:18 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > 
> > Would you be interested in adding it as a 'perf bench futex' testcase? 
> > That way kernel developers could monitor futex performance in the future 
> > as well.
> > 
> > See 'perf bench' in the latest perf events tree:
> > 
> >   http://people.redhat.com/mingo/tip.git/README
> > 
> > Do 'cd tools/perf; make -j install' to install perf.
> 
> Darren has recently been putting a lot of effort in making a futex test
> suite:
> 
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/dvhart/futextest.git
> 
> Its not yet complete, but hopefully it will soon be :-)

Looks nice! Any futex performance measurements within it could be added 
to perf bench - with standardized options and output, etc.

	Ingo
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/