Implement mechanism to wait on any of several futexes
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Re: Implement mechanism to wait on any of several futexes
#2The specific proposal (linked to from the article) is https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/7/30/1399
Re: Implement mechanism to wait on any of several futexes
#3The scale goes from 0 to 80. It's not horribly misleading, but just saying
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#4This is apparently for improving the performance of Wine emulator on Linux mainly, not native Linux games like the headline suggests.
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#5Am I interpreting the graph on their page all wrong? It looks like the older version of Proton provides better performance? Unless they're graphing function call return time? The graph and the text around it doesn't do a good job of explaining that.
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#6Am I interpreting the graph on their page all wrong? It looks like the older version of Proton provides better performance? Unless they're graphing function call return time? The graph and the text around it doesn't do a good job of explaining that.
4.11 is newer than 4.2
Re: Implement mechanism to wait on any of several futexes
#7Am I interpreting the graph on their page all wrong? It looks like the older version of Proton provides better performance? Unless they're graphing function call return time? The graph and the text around it doesn't do a good job of explaining that.
4.11 is 9 versions newer than 4.2
Re: Implement mechanism to wait on any of several futexes
#8The scale goes from 0 to 80. It's not horribly misleading, but just saying
I believe that’s because it’s frames per second, not an abstract percentile.
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#9Am I interpreting the graph on their page all wrong? It looks like the older version of Proton provides better performance? Unless they're graphing function call return time? The graph and the text around it doesn't do a good job of explaining that.
The graph is likely showing Frames Per Second (FPS). The higher the better.
Re: Implement mechanism to wait on any of several futexes
#10Am I interpreting the graph on their page all wrong? It looks like the older version of Proton provides better performance? Unless they're graphing function call return time? The graph and the text around it doesn't do a good job of explaining that.
4.11 is 9 versions newer than 4.2
The thing to remember is that version numbers aren’t decimals. They’re two or three integers separated by periods.
11 is higher than 2.