Re: [patch V2 3/7] futex: Add op for hash preallocation

[Darren Hart]

On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 02:28:49PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Sat, May 07, 2016 at 10:47:38AM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > On Fri, 6 May 2016, Darren Hart wrote:
> 
> > > So this seems like it could be tricky for the user as system libraries, like
> > > glibc, make use of futexes. Can we guarantee that "sys_futex" is not called by
> > > the time main() is called?
> > 
> > To the extent of my testing I never observed that the hash was automatically
> > created when I called futex(PREALLOC) right away in main. But yes, that might
> > need some thought.
> 
> I suspect that even if glibc uses futexes before main(), they will not
> be contended, because, last time I checked, the C runtime environment is
> very much single threaded unless explicitly made not so by the program.
> 
> In any case (re)hashing if the hash is empty is 'easy', if there's already state,
> not so much.

It certainly would be nice to be able to resize the hash if it's empty.

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Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center