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Date:      Tue, 16 Nov 2004 07:30:42 +0800
From:      David Xu <davidxu@freebsd.org>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Perforce Change Reviews <perforce@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: PERFORCE change 65074 for review
Message-ID:  <41993C22.2060309@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <200411151318.49415.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <200411140513.iAE5DOTv056478@repoman.freebsd.org> <200411151318.49415.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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John Baldwin wrote:

>On Sunday 14 November 2004 12:13 am, David Xu wrote:
>  
>
>>http://perforce.freebsd.org/chv.cgi?CH=65074
>>
>>Change 65074 by davidxu@davidxu_alona on 2004/11/14 05:12:40
>>
>>	1. Fix a race between signal and umtx_unlock. a waiter
>>	   may be resumed by signal and left or exited, heavily
>>	   loaded test causes kernel to crash.
>>	2. Use distributed queue locks instead of single giant
>>	   lock.
>>
>>Affected files ...
>>
>>.. //depot/projects/davidxu_ksedbg/src/sys/kern/kern_umtx.c#4 edit
>>
>>Differences ...
>>
>>==== //depot/projects/davidxu_ksedbg/src/sys/kern/kern_umtx.c#4 (text+ko)
>>====
>>
>>@@ -49,25 +49,48 @@
>> 	pid_t		uq_pid;		/* Pid key component. */
>> };
>>
>> #define	UMTX_QUEUES	128
>> #define	UMTX_HASH(pid, umtx)						\
>>-    (((uintptr_t)pid + ((uintptr_t)umtx & ~65535)) % UMTX_QUEUES)
>>+    ((((uintptr_t)pid << 16) + ((uintptr_t)umtx & 65535)) % UMTX_QUEUES)
>>    
>>
>
>I'm curious why you changed the hash macro here?  Low order bits of pointers 
>tend to be zero due to alignment, so I think this will result in fewer 
>"useful" bits and more collisions and longer chains.
>
>  
>
Yeah, I orignally wanted to reduce collisions but seems got
an opposited result. ;-)






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