Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 07:25:17 -0600 (CST) From: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com> To: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@linux.realnet.co.sz> Cc: John Regehr <regehr@cs.utah.edu>, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Linuxthreads on Linux vs FreeBSD performance question Message-ID: <20020404072359.E62127-100000@patrocles.silby.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0204040847430.10620-100000@netfinity.realnet.co.sz>
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On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote: > On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, John Regehr wrote: > > > > > Have you tried benchmarking process to process context switch times to see > > > > if the results are similar? > > > > No, that's a good idea. My infrastructure isn't set up to support > > processes, though, so it'll take a little time. > > I'd be surprised if there was a difference in context switch times... Well, there would be if the linux kernel has specific task-switching optimizations for threads. That would tell us if the overhead is linuxthread-specific, or generalized. Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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