Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx> wrote: > Regarding the restructuring > of the locking primitives, that shouldn't have any noticible > performance > impact yet. Well, our snooze() performs better now. :-P And since a > few > hours also blocking reads from pipes. What could actually have an impact on SMP machines are the changes you made to the timer implementation. Not sure if that should turn out to be drastic, but every acquire semaphore that used a timeout would call cancel_timer() which got greatly improved. Bye, Axel.