Re: [BUG] segfault in perf-top -- thread refcnt

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo]

Em Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 11:58:05AM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo escreveu:
> Em Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 09:48:52PM +0900, Namhyung Kim escreveu:
> > But this makes every sample processing grabs and releases the lock so
> > might cause high overhead.  It can be a problem if such processing is
> > done parallelly like my multi-thread work. :-/
> 
> Still untested, using rw lock, next step is auditing the
> machine__findnew_thread users that really should be using
> machine__find_thread, i.e. grabbing just the reader lock, and measuring
> the overhead of using a pthread rw lock instead of pthread_mutex_t as
> Jiri is doing.

Don't bother trying it, doesn't even compile ;-\

As I said, untested, more as a heads up, will fix it up properly and
test after lunch.

- Arnaldo
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