Re: [Boost-bugs] [Boost C++ Libraries] #7422: Provide a condition variable with zero-overhead performance penality

Subject: Re: [Boost-bugs] [Boost C++ Libraries] #7422: Provide a condition variable with zero-overhead performance penality
From: Boost C++ Libraries (noreply_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-12-13 20:55:07

#7422: Provide a condition variable with zero-overhead performance penality
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  Reporter:  maxim.yegorushkin@…          |       Owner:  viboes            
      Type:  Feature Requests             |      Status:  assigned          
 Milestone:  To Be Determined             |   Component:  thread            
   Version:  Boost 1.51.0                 |    Severity:  Regression        
Resolution:                               |    Keywords:  condition_variable
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Comment (by Maxim Yegorushkin <maxim.yegorushkin@…>):

 Good idea, so I re-ran the benchmark on my Fedora 17 workstation with
 i7-3820. For these two runs I used boost trunk as of revision 81908. One
 run with the benchmark and  boost built with
 -DBOOST_THREAD_DONT_PROVIDE_INTERRUPTIONS macro and one without.

 (Forgot to mention that in addition to running the benchmark with real-
 time priority FIFO 99, I also disable CPU frequency scaling to prevent the
 CPU from shifting gears while benchmarking).

 There is a noticeable 35% improvement in median run-time when macro
 BOOST_THREAD_DONT_PROVIDE_INTERRUPTIONS is defined. (Note that I am not
 being overly scientific here because the analysis of variance is missing,
 i.e. I can't say I am 95% sure. However on the plot the effect of the
 macro is quite noticeable)

 On the other hand, using boost mutex and condition_variable with
 BOOST_THREAD_DONT_PROVIDE_INTERRUPTIONS defined is still around 5% slower
 than when using the same primitives from std namespace. (Same caveat)

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Ticket URL: <https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/7422#comment:14>
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