From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 8 22:10:20 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B6C41065672; Sat, 8 May 2010 22:10:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kip.macy@gmail.com) Received: from mail-px0-f182.google.com (mail-px0-f182.google.com [209.85.212.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28A8E8FC08; Sat, 8 May 2010 22:10:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pxi20 with SMTP id 20so1107686pxi.13 for ; Sat, 08 May 2010 15:10:12 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=u2KBnPQBWTavhkgBHOA0NSLZA/gXpy3QpkZJZt/hDLY=; b=DXryIJiDlVloY2CWCS37HlFin1Kd3cUsq1iZQ50x03Yw/68rVJuvUr2UC1ARIYGuGn SxZbf5h0/cwPWdT9SLbn0aRBPEGU9Fj2ICQ/sTxEAJbfrc3WaK/EBzianV9wKX5qJKMN iu7KUGEW9ZiB7NjDzPExlAiF7vPKK8hzRehUQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=w2O6pex7XhwE3KXwGSZSTdFLG8oWX5jN6NJ+EQ2xMlJvN2ipwh/4UlX3DqEJSrGueT CZL1FW+8+PpADPPm55d2aUQpyXAliAOI6HFB1Ru76JXIZKzqj4By/wROpImQ4vHKrw+V +42IUnTk9lJafM7qRanT0/91ki9BrS3oqWJ7Y= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.142.122.7 with SMTP id u7mr1226218wfc.212.1273355055727; Sat, 08 May 2010 14:44:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.106.5 with HTTP; Sat, 8 May 2010 14:44:15 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 14:44:15 -0700 Message-ID: From: Kip Macy To: Brandon Gooch Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: bf1783@gmail.com, alc@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recent sys/vm/ changes and nvidia-driver 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: Sat, 08 May 2010 22:10:20 -0000 On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 2:39 PM, Brandon Gooch wrote: > On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 4:20 PM, b. f. wrote: >> On 05/08/10 13:36, Alan Cox wrote: >>> Doug Barton wrote: >>>> On 05/05/10 11:56, Alan Cox wrote: >>>> >>>>> I'm afraid that I would advise waiting a few days. =A0This round of >>>>> changes >>>>> are not yet complete. >> >> What performance differences, if any, can we expect on uniprocessors >> from the vm page lock-related changes? Kip's original post on -arch >> mentioned some performance improvements and no significant >> regressions, but on a dual 4-core machine. > > Alan (or Kip): Is there a document available that describes the work > being done on the VM system? > > I would like to -- or like make and attempt to -- read such a document... > > Hey b. f., to which post on -arch are you referring? there is no document. The basic idea is straightforward, but there are some unpleasant edges to cope with. http://www.mavetju.org/mail/view_message.php?list=3Dfreebsd-arch&id=3D31552= 60&thread=3Dno -Kip