Fredrik Kuivinen schrieb: > The patch has been rebased on top of next and I believe that it is now > ready for inclusion. It is time to decide if the added code complexity > is worth the increased performance. I also have to add a few nits to make this play better on Windows. > +/* This lock protects all the variables above. */ > +static pthread_mutex_t grep_lock = PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER; > + > +/* Signalled when a new work_item is added to todo. */ > +static pthread_cond_t cond_add = PTHREAD_COND_INITIALIZER; > + > +/* Signalled when the result from one work_item is written to > + stdout. */ > +static pthread_cond_t cond_write = PTHREAD_COND_INITIALIZER; > + > +/* Signalled when we are finished with everything. */ > +static pthread_cond_t cond_result = PTHREAD_COND_INITIALIZER; Please do not use PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER nor PTHREAD_COND_INITIALIZER; call pthread_mutex_init and pthread_cond_init (and the corresponding *_destroy!!) from the code. > +static void add_work(enum work_type type, char *name, char *buf, size_t size) > +{ > +... > + pthread_mutex_unlock(&grep_lock); > + pthread_cond_signal(&cond_add); Please swap these two lines, so that pthread_cond_signal() is called while the lock is held. > + /* Wake up all the consumer threads so they can see that there > + is no more work to do. */ > + pthread_cond_broadcast(&cond_add); > + pthread_mutex_unlock(&grep_lock); Ouch! We do not have pthread_cond_broadcast() on Windows, yet. This shouldn't be a stopper for this patch, though. Perhaps Andrzej (cc:ed) can implement it? -- Hannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html