From: Benjamin LaHaise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2005 17:31:48 -0500
> AF_UNIX stream socket performance on P4 CPUs tends to suffer due to a lot
> of pipeline flushes from atomic operations. The patch below removes the
> sock_hold() and sock_put() in unix_stream_sendmsg(). This shou
AF_UNIX stream socket performance on P4 CPUs tends to suffer due to a lot
of pipeline flushes from atomic operations. The patch below removes the
sock_hold() and sock_put() in unix_stream_sendmsg(). This should be safe
as the socket still holds a reference to its peer which is only released
a