On Fri, Aug 12, 2022 at 02:38:06PM -0400, Elad Lahav wrote: > Sent as an attachment because I'm behind a corporate firewall and can > only use Gmail's ^$*&^@# web interface. If that's not acceptable I'll > find another method to send a Real Text Email, just like mother nature > intended it to be. For the time being, it is fine. Longer term, it would be good to find a way to send a Real Text Email, for old time's sake. ;-) Queued and pushed, thank you! Thanx, Paul > --Elad > 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 >
