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Re: Lost patch / performance improvement
- To: "Boehm, Hans" <hans_boehm at hp dot com>
- Subject: Re: Lost patch / performance improvement
- From: Bryce McKinlay <bryce at waitaki dot otago dot ac dot nz>
- Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 15:47:11 +1300
- CC: "'java-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org'" <java-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>, "'tromey at redhat dot com'" <tromey at redhat dot com>
- References: <40700B4C02ABD5119F000090278766443BECFA@hplex1.hpl.hp.com>
Boehm, Hans wrote:
>This piece of the parallel GC patch for the trunk appears to have gotten
>lost, probably because I forgot to send it to Tom earlier. Without this
>patch, not many things are likely to take advantage of thread local
>allocation buffers. Thus I suspect it makes a significant performance
>difference, especially on multiprocessors. I have been running with this in
>a modified tree for a long time. If someone could verify that this works in
>the current unmodified tree (on a Linux platform where THREAD_LOCAL_ALLOC is
>set), and approve it, I can check it in.
>
This looks fine to me, please check it in. When does THREAD_LOCAL_ALLOC
get set? Do we want configure to define it on linux by default?
regards
Bryce.