* Pierre Peiffer <pierre.peiffer@bull.net> wrote:

> [...] Any measure will be difficult to do with only FUTEX_WAIT/WAKE.

that's not a problem - just do such a measurement and show that it does 
/not/ impact performance measurably. That's what we want to know...

> (*) I'll try the volano bench, if I have time.

yeah. As an alternative, it might be a good idea to pthread-ify 
hackbench.c - that should replicate the Volano workload pretty 
accurately. I've attached hackbench.c. (it's process based right now, so 
it wont trigger contended futex ops)

	Ingo