[issue11382] some posix module functions unnecessarily release the GIL
Antoine Pitrou
report at bugs.python.org
Thu Mar 3 13:42:24 CET 2011
Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:
> Well, those are contrived examples showing the effect of the convoy
> effect induced by those unneeded GIL release/acquire: releasing and
> re-acquiring the GIL comes with a cost (e.g. under Linux, futex are
> really fast in the uncontended case since handled in use space but
> much slower when there's contention), and subverts the OS scheduling
> policy (forcing the thread to drop/re-acquire the GIL make the thread
> block after having consumed a small amount of its time slice and
> increases the context switching rate). I think that releasing and
> re-acquiring the GIL should only be done around potentially blocking
> calls.
Do you want to propose a patch?
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