From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 14 05:00:04 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F04816A4CE for ; Wed, 14 Apr 2004 05:00:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mtaw4.prodigy.net (mtaw4.prodigy.net [64.164.98.52]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3CE043D41 for ; Wed, 14 Apr 2004 05:00:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (081aa64cc21505bee4057edd6eceda47@adsl-67-115-73-128.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [67.115.73.128]) by mtaw4.prodigy.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i3EBxK5k005345; Wed, 14 Apr 2004 04:59:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2FA6E52322; Wed, 14 Apr 2004 04:59:21 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 04:59:21 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Holger Kipp Message-ID: <20040414115921.GA49026@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <200404140913.i3E9Dpb74482@alogis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="X1bOJ3K7DJ5YkBrT" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200404140913.i3E9Dpb74482@alogis.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question: Planned Performance improvements? GIANT free ciss, bge,...? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 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: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 12:00:04 -0000 --X1bOJ3K7DJ5YkBrT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 09:13:46AM +0000, Holger Kipp wrote: > I haven't found an overview about the current timeline > regarding specific devices. As we are going to use a few > systems with 5-CURRENT for customer production environment > (webservers), can anyone comment on planned improvements > for the next few days/weeks (if any), especially >=20 > - GIANT removal for ciss and bge (the others as mentioned by > dmesg are npx, acpi, ohci and atkbd). >=20 > - Other improvements regarding HTT and scheduling? >=20 > currently, we have 11.3 web pages per second with SCHED_4BSD > 11.5 web pages per second with SCHED_ULE > with 0% idle under SCHED_4BSD, 5-7% idle under SCHED_ULE. > (this is without witness or invariants, of course) > (under 4.9-STABLE numbers are slightly below 11) Aspects of network locking are actively being addressed by Robert Watson and collaborators. If you're willing to test the patches, they're here: http://www.watson.org/~robert/freebsd/netperf/ Some performance numbers from real-world applications would surely be welcomed. I've been running them on ~35 heavily loaded machines (only a few SMP) with good results (i.e. no panics for a few days, I haven't tried to measure performance) Kris --X1bOJ3K7DJ5YkBrT Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAfSeYWry0BWjoQKURAqJLAJ9bi0U2Tohk+cJ/+/uMc7Jgb1NrCwCfczTn fwcnLO7ZdBlTRs63sYNykiM= =+9kW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --X1bOJ3K7DJ5YkBrT--