--Perry
>
>
> this patch implements 'delayed IO-bitmap clearing'. Benchmarking clone()
> thread creation latency on a 100 MHZ P5 UP gives:
>
> without patch:
>
> hell:~> ./lat_clone
> best clone() latency: 3316 cycles
>
> with patch:
>
> hell:~> ./lat_clone
> best clone() latency: 2941 cycles
>
> a ~13% speedup. I think Linux thus holds the x86 kernel thread creation
> speed world record? ;)
>
> [my 100 MHz P5 does 9208 create+wait+exit threads/sec, this should scale
> to something like 50K threads/sec on high end x86 systems. More than 70%
> of the overhead is now in the wait()/exit() part.]
>
> i've tested sys_ioperm() functionality, and it seems to work fine in all
> the important cases.
>
> -- mingo
>
-- Perry Harrington Linux rules all OSes. APSoft () email: perry@apsoft.com Think Blue. /\- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu