Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 01:09:09 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Andre Guibert de Bruet <andy@siliconlandmark.com> Cc: smp@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: Progress on scaling of FreeBSD on 8 CPU systems Message-ID: <20070225060908.GA47476@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <1C143520-B893-4F43-8F7E-04B021D2EE69@siliconlandmark.com> References: <20070224213111.GB41434@xor.obsecurity.org> <346a80220702242100i7ec22b5h4b25cc7d20d03e98@mail.gmail.com> <20070225054120.GA47059@xor.obsecurity.org> <1C143520-B893-4F43-8F7E-04B021D2EE69@siliconlandmark.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 01:05:53AM -0500, Andre Guibert de Bruet wrote: > On Feb 25, 2007, at 12:41 AM, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > >On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 10:00:35PM -0700, Coleman Kane wrote: > > > >>What does the performance curve look like for the in-CVS 7-CURRENT > >>tree with > >>4BSD or ULE ? How do those stand up against the Linux SMP > >>scheduler for > >>scalability. It would be nice to see the comparison displayed to > >>see what > >>the performance improvements of the aforementioned patch were > >>realized to. > >>This would likely be a nice graphics for the SMPng project page, > >>BTW... > > > >There are graphs of this on Jeff's blog, referenced in that URL. > >Fixing filedesc locking makes a HUGE difference. > > Kris, > > This is fantastic news! Is there an approximate date for when all of > these patches are going to hit CVS? Hopefully within a week or two. It might not be that exact patch, I think John wants to try and do it a bit differently instead of introducing a new locking primitive just for this. Kris [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFF4SgEWry0BWjoQKURAorkAJ42xCwaSaaBP4BpoRf6gWmJ1HMxsgCeI6uH hj9/ZDlMxdlVeW+3ry/seJE= =Uks7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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