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Date:      Tue, 24 May 2005 09:20:35 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Krzysztof Kowalik <kkowalik@uci.agh.edu.pl>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject:   Re: Performance of 4.x vs 5.x (Re: Lifetime of FreeBSD branches)
Message-ID:  <20050524162034.GA59728@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050524143726.GA29642@uci.agh.edu.pl>
References:  <3248.172.16.0.199.1116876092.squirrel@172.16.0.1> <20050523195123.GA13810@xor.obsecurity.org> <3482.172.16.0.199.1116882013.squirrel@172.16.0.1> <20050523211307.GA36552@xor.obsecurity.org> <42924949.1070902@incubus.de> <20050523213155.GA46718@xor.obsecurity.org> <20050524143726.GA29642@uci.agh.edu.pl>

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On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 04:37:26PM +0200, Krzysztof Kowalik wrote:
> Kris Kennaway [kris@obsecurity.org] wrote:
> > [...]  One obvious guess is that it's due to VFS being under Giant,
> > which causes lots of contention with other subsystems that also
> > require Giant, and therefore introduces latency.  If so, you'd see a
> > substantial performance improvement on 6.0 with debug.mpsafevfs=3D1.
>=20
> I didn't see any visible difference, in the given scenario of
> uncompressing firefox's sources, when tried mpsafevfs's patches when
> they got announced on current@.

There have been a *lot* of changes in this area since the initial
patches (i.e. continued removal of Giant), so you'd really need to
re-test on a recent version of 6.0 to be definitive.

Kris
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