Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2000 12:06:00 -0600 (CST) From: Mohit Aron <aron@cs.rice.edu> To: alex@big.endian.de (Alexander Langer) Cc: weyrich@goodnet.com, freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: performance of FreeBSD-current as SMP Message-ID: <200001081806.MAA13508@cs.rice.edu> In-Reply-To: <20000108183130.A13891@cichlids.cichlids.com> from "Alexander Langer" at Jan 8, 2000 06:31:30 pm
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> > Yes, I know. I just wanted to mention it. > Well, it's known that SMP produces this overhead. > > The same is for NT and Linux, if you enable SMP and use only 1 > prozessor. > Neither are very good OS's as far as SMP support is concerned. FreeBSD beats them in networking and there's no reason why the case should be any different for SMP support. > It's the protocol-overhead or other overhead or such (don't know the > internals) > Its probably the overhead of lock acquirement/release. Which means the implementation of locking in FreeBSD needs some improvement. - Mohit To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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