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[Robert Watson]

On Wed, 5 Sep 2007, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> Mike Silbersack wrote:
>> 
>> On Wed, 5 Sep 2007, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>> 
>>> Check my slides from the devsummit, at
>>> 
>>> http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/scaling/Scalability%20Update.pdf
>>> 
>>> Most of the improvement to mysql on 7.0 came from fixed sx locks and 
>>> converting filedesc to use them.
>> 
>> I can't remember.  Are filedesc locking improvements helpful to only 
>> threaded apps, or do non-threaded apps benefit as well?
> 
> Threaded.

They actually may also lower the overhead for non-threaded apps to perform 
some operations, but the difference won't be nearly as dramatic as for 
threaded applications that pound the file descriptor array heavily.

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge