From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 4 13:33:49 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59C47106564A; Fri, 4 Nov 2011 13:33:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fidaj@ukr.net) Received: from fsm1.ukr.net (fsm1.ukr.net [195.214.192.120]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BA338FC14; Fri, 4 Nov 2011 13:33:48 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=ukr.net; s=fsm; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type:Mime-Version:References:In-Reply-To:Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To:From:Date; bh=4slA3WF7dtBy8FSXia+XlpXdPTkAza8cqbr6W0ZbE24=; b=i5RX1otQpP4rCGrUM0N9EYrT8K3M+gHnfybbWmnEeL5SDvgX/ewaCiGK7PzmpgS/+p8DUkirtD0juMWgeAeUTwsTSKDNB37A7QEmEqXnR6JtPCNjx10ca5twWWEoQi5cggVMyd/YHAhAGCcXamCQtfEM1e9DuezAigvFpsyZAhc=; Received: from [81.23.24.104] (helo=nonamehost.) by fsm1.ukr.net with esmtpsa ID 1RMJty-000Bo0-R7 ; Fri, 04 Nov 2011 15:33:47 +0200 Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2011 15:33:18 +0200 From: Ivan Klymenko To: Jeff Roberson , Andriy Gapon Message-ID: <20111104153318.0f3b9c9a@nonamehost.> In-Reply-To: References: <4ea29f2c.a823440a.4aa0.3599SMTPIN_ADDED@mx.google.com> <4eb3032e.a82eec0a.12ad.ffff8d64SMTPIN_ADDED@mx.google.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.9 (GTK+ 2.22.1; amd64-portbld-freebsd9.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Increase the degree of interactivity ULE scheduler X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2011 13:33:49 -0000 Maybe useful the following information: This problem appears not to all architectures and types of CPU. on the Russian forums http://www.bsdportal.ru/viewtopic.php?t=24900 http://forum.lissyara.su/viewtopic.php?f=45&t=34641&sid=aa596f0b70806ba053011da911f9ccae was a brute force to find out that: there is a suspicion that: - for AMD processors, this problem is not observed at all when the number of cores >= 2 - on all single-core is the problem - only for some models with Intel >= 2 cores of the problem is not found Perhaps, after all, avg@ rights (Subject: couple of sched_ule issues), that is not working properly mechanism rebalancing and to determine the topology of CPU? All converge, because my patch ( http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20111022132817.35db5ccd ) for SMP systems just do respite for rebalancing, which eliminates the problem with interactivity ... Thanks!