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akdev1lyesterday at 7:42 PM2 repliesview on HN

>These extreme gains are the result of benching against vanilla without fsync, which is what anyone gaming on linux uses

Not for anyone using a kernel without these patches. Which would be most people.


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forestoyesterday at 7:53 PM

Most people? What mainstream Linux distros ship without fsync or esync support?

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IshKebabyesterday at 10:29 PM

The article says fsync uses futexes which are a completely standard kernel feature.