From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 29 15:20:13 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6787616A421 for ; Fri, 29 Jun 2007 15:20:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from almarrie@gmail.com) Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.250]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 228A713C45A for ; Fri, 29 Jun 2007 15:20:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from almarrie@gmail.com) Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id c14so219235anc for ; Fri, 29 Jun 2007 08:20:12 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=d1hbM/YIoaaAiOS+TeaM9eGwyeiKoklEgxPThWvHRHu1mbfrxxRA41DwB/cgefTCAnaq+MqYRE8STsr3FPJRb9Tq8OxTxiTqMH6Yz2n08RFEYIk76P2axNa9mBM+aYNvY4hPHFaQUaumVxBp84iog6U9d4KDh6++gWCPmadiomU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=H23qRTtghiDWWFuDQZzmSYQB5/Y5kIHbVQg01j8keDsWqBZxD6gRpxS21gGLw5hswq6dF/9mXZgWU1UnW6oEwi+LuCcUVXFzHdr+SM6iebcG1yfDsTmk0II0UBbPvCwXDCwmsz6eA0MAqwGcPqdDVK7o0V+3tzxpMa9IAb0fK0k= Received: by 10.100.13.12 with SMTP id 12mr2180563anm.1183130412433; Fri, 29 Jun 2007 08:20:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.100.9.14 with HTTP; Fri, 29 Jun 2007 08:20:12 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <499c70c0706290820r2bf5c119p6014285a449dd618@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 18:20:12 +0300 From: "Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri" To: attilio@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <467F71CA.2030206@FreeBSD.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <499c70c0706241546j1b1e62a0ldb51ef1e13c15386@mail.gmail.com> <467F71CA.2030206@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: options IPI_PREEMPTION and PREEMPTION in 7.0 AMD64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 15:20:13 -0000 On 6/25/07, Attilio Rao wrote: > Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I run FreeBSD 7.0 AMD64 and powered by C2D with 2 GB of ram. > > > > options PREEMPTION in the kernel, but in NOTES it says I can use > > IPI_PREEMPTION to make the kernel make the other running threads to > > run in the other core. > > > > So the question is, did you guys try it with ULE 2? shall I keep both > > PREEMPTION and IPI_PREEMPTION in the kernel file? > > IPI_PREEMPTION and PREEMPTION are only marginally linked, and you need > to use both with ULE. > > Thanks, > Attilio Adding IPI_PREEMPTION in the kernel didn't make my Intel C2D 6600 which runs 7.0 AMD64 busy as before, so I removed, and now MySQL runs fatser after hashing it out, maybe this is need for Intel C2Q or 8 cores at least? -- Regards, -Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri Arab Portal http://www.WeArab.Net/