<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 16:01, Barry Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bsmith@mcs.anl.gov">bsmith@mcs.anl.gov</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div id=":4k2"> Yes, but they can only get access to that shared variable one at a time: first get's it, then second get's it, then third gets, .... Ok for a couple of cores but not for dozens.<br>
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Take a look at src/sys/objects/pthread.c for the various ways we have coded for "waking" the threads. Maybe I am missing something but this is the best Kerry and I could figure out.</div></blockquote></div><br>
<div>What exactly should I be looking at? Can't you have all the threads spin on a normal shared variable (not a mutex) that is only written by the thread that needs to spark them? Or use a fetch-and-add atomic if you want to keep track of how many are running or limit the number? The latter could use a tree to get logarithmic cost, but if they are stored next to each other, you would still have O(P) cache invalidations.</div>