From owner-freebsd-threads@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 27 10:46:48 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-threads@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B000916A4C0; Wed, 27 Aug 2003 10:46:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.pcnet.com (mail.pcnet.com [204.213.232.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE5DB43FF5; Wed, 27 Aug 2003 10:46:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eischen@vigrid.com) Received: from mail.pcnet.com (mail.pcnet.com [204.213.232.4]) by mail.pcnet.com (8.12.8/8.12.1) with ESMTP id h7RHkjtp006999; Wed, 27 Aug 2003 13:46:45 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 13:46:45 -0400 (EDT) From: Daniel Eischen X-Sender: eischen@pcnet5.pcnet.com To: Sean Chittenden In-Reply-To: <20030827164553.GC51167@perrin.nxad.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: threads@freebsd.org cc: Scott Long Subject: Re: Call for thread testers X-BeenThere: freebsd-threads@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: deischen@freebsd.org List-Id: Threading on FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 17:46:48 -0000 On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Sean Chittenden wrote: > [moving to -threads] > > What's the current status of KSE? Is the project page > (http://www.FreeBSD.org/kse/) considered up to date by the KSE The only thing that really isn't quite up-to-date is "Efficient scope system threads" which is done and the MD functions for non-x86 platforms, which should add Jake for sparc64. AMD64 has been done by David and myself. Alpha userland is done (needs debugging) but kernel needs a couple of functions (Marcel) implemented. > developers? Are the remaining bits for KSE either bug related or > dealing with ARCH != x86? Are there any remaining/outstanding Mostly archs == ia64, alpha, and sparc. > "gotchas"/bugs on the radar/problems that the KSE developers are aware > of? No. I think libkse works better than libc_r at this point, and has more implemented (wrt scope process/system threads and concurrency level). > I've heard that the konsole bug has been fixed and there's a patch > floating around to fix the SIGABRTs for that program (was my biggest > gripe last time I tested libkse). > > Just trying to figure out what my expectations should be with regards > to testing at this point. Is KSE to the point that it's ready for > performance testing or is stability still a concern? As far as I can tell, it is stable enough for everything I've thrown at it. But we need people to use it with Apache, MySQL, etc, in more real-world environments and tell us what they find. It would be nice if we had our own test team that could do this for us. As developers, it's very hard to find the time to work on the implementation and to set up environments in which to test Apache, MySQL, etc. It's not just installing those ports; it's also knowing how to tune them, feed them with real data, etc. -- Dan Eischen