Re: Possible bug from kernel 2.6.22 and above, 2.6.24-rc4

[Ingo Molnar]

* Jie Chen <chen@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I just disabled the affinity mask and reran the test. There were no 
> significant changes for two threads (barrier overhead is around 9 
> microseconds). As for 8 threads, the barrier overhead actually drops a 
> little, which is good. Let me know whether I can be any help. Thank 
> you very much.

sorry to be dense, but could you give me instructions how i could remove 
the affinity mask and test the "barrier overhead" myself? I have built 
"pthread_sync" and it outputs numbers for me - which one would be the 
barrier overhead: Reference_time_1 ?

	Ingo
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