Re: Linus on Linux, Apache and Threads

Matt Ranney (mjr@ranney.com)
26 Apr 1999 12:53:52 -0700


alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox) writes:

> That isnt the performance issue. The scaling issue tends to be the "wake all
> / wake one" stuff - which is hard to do well for wake one.

Doesn't pthread_cond_signal() wake one relatively efficiently as
opposed to pthread_cond_broadcast()?

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Matt Ranney - mjr@ranney.com

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