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From 153cd4261fe58ed7f26bb0b1232eae2de43070ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Elad Lahav <elahav@xxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2022 13:04:08 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] count: The fast path is for the write side, not the read side. Signed-off-by: Elad Lahav <e2lahav@xxxxxxxxx> --- count/count.tex | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/count/count.tex b/count/count.tex index 7e74d58f..523789e2 100644 --- a/count/count.tex +++ b/count/count.tex @@ -2262,7 +2262,7 @@ be run all the way to either of its limits, but it does so at the expense of adding atomic operations to the fastpaths, which slow down the fastpaths significantly on some systems. Although some workloads might tolerate this slowdown, it is worthwhile -looking for algorithms with better read-side performance. +looking for algorithms with better write-side performance. One such algorithm uses a signal handler to steal counts from other threads. Because signal handlers run in the context of the signaled thread, -- 2.25.1
