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Date:      Fri, 6 May 2005 15:12:04 -0500
From:      Steve Ames <steve@energistic.com>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Benchmarking mpsafevfs with parallel tarball extraction
Message-ID:  <20050506201204.GA12764@energistic.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050506183529.GA46411@xor.obsecurity.org>
References:  <20050506183529.GA46411@xor.obsecurity.org>

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On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 11:35:29AM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> Kernel was built without INVARIANTS and other debugging options,
> without ADAPTIVE_GIANT (which causes about a 200% performance penalty
> on system time in my testing, and has marginal impact on real or user
> time) and with 4BSD scheduler (ULE causes spontaneous reboots on this
> machine).  The e4500 uses the esp SCSI controller, which runs
> without Giant.

I'm rather suprised that ADAPTIVE_GIANT causes so much performance
degradation in your testing. On my, admittedly much more modest system,
using ADAPTIVE_GIANT shaves about 6 minutes off a 'make world'. Haven't
really done any research on why that is. I was just suprised by your
200% performance penalty.

-Steve



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