Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 00:56:13 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux moves to per CPU run queues Message-ID: <p05101007b862dc9d2809@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <3C3CF60B.CE5F3E6C@mindspring.com> References: <3C3CF60B.CE5F3E6C@mindspring.com>
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At 6:01 PM -0800 1/9/02, Terry Lambert wrote: >As I have been suggesting for FreeBSD for some time, Linux has >just moved to per CPU run queues to reduce scheduler contention >and to improve affinity. > >http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0201.0/0810.html > >-- Terry Well, it's still in the testing stage, it's not like the switch has "gone production" yet. It does look very interesting, and it will be good to keep track of how well it performs as more people beat on it. There clearly seemed to be a lot of interest for this change in the above mailing list. There seem to be several "doubters" in the list, so I'm sure they'll come up with several different ways to benchmark the results. Always good to have a little competition in the world of ideas... -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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