Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Semaphores slow??? | Date | Wed, 27 Dec 2000 15:15:35 +0100 (MET) | From | (Rogier Wolff) |
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Hi,
We have a typical semaphore application that has a producer and a consumer.
Without the semaphores we are limited by the rest of the stuff to 10000 times around the loop per second. That's good.
When we put the "push the semaphore" call in there, the rate drops to around 8000 per second. I'm not happy about that, but ok. When we add the "wait for bufferspace" semaphore wait in there, the rate drops to 4000 per second. This is way too low.
Does anybody have an idea why linux semaphores are so slow?
init: sem_init (&write_sem, 1, 0); sem_init (&write_buffer_sem, 1, 0);
producer:
while (1) { sem_wait (&write_buffer_sem); ...
sem_post (&write_sem); }
consumer: for (i=0;i<nbufs;i++) { Create_buffer (i); sem_post (&write_buffer_sem); }
while (1) { sem_wait (&write_sem); ...
sem_post (&write_buffer_sem); }
(pshared == 0 doesn't work: returns error. The manpage claims that thsi would happen for pshared != 0... )
Roger.
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