[openib-general] uverbs: pthread_mutex -> pthread_spinlock ?
Michael S. Tsirkin
mst at mellanox.co.il
Thu Mar 10 02:47:22 PST 2005
I am able to shave about 200ns off the rdma post latency,
by using pthread_spinlock instead of pthread_mutex for protecting
the qp post op in libmthca.
I'm aware of course that a context switch when spinlock is held may
waste a whole timeslice , but maybe for short operations such as this
it's reasonable to use spinlocks?
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MST - Michael S. Tsirkin
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