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Date:      Sat, 24 Dec 2005 12:35:47 +1030
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: My wish list for 6.1
Message-ID:  <43ACACFB.9070308@obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20051222173308.B23728@cons.org>
References:  <43A26FFB.9080405@samsco.org> <20051216104022.A20877@cons.org>	<20051217063409.GB19094@silverwraith.com>	<20051217080109.GA31849@xor.obsecurity.org> <20051222173308.B23728@cons.org>

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Martin Cracauer wrote:

> 
> I tried to model different worklods.  The parallel part of my
> benchmark suite has CPU-heavy processes, short plain http, php, long
> plain http and mixtures thereof.
> 
> None of these showed the SMP kernel to be an overall disadvantage on a
> one-processor system.

What you want is to find a real-world workload that exercises a lot of 
mutexes.  These exist, and they'll see the most pessimization from 
running SMP kernel on UP.

Kris




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