Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2000 20:11:59 +0100 From: Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de> To: Mohit Aron <aron@cs.rice.edu> Cc: weyrich@goodnet.com, freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: performance of FreeBSD-current as SMP Message-ID: <20000108201159.A14353@cichlids.cichlids.com> In-Reply-To: <200001081806.MAA13508@cs.rice.edu>; from aron@cs.rice.edu on Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 12:06:00PM -0600 References: <20000108183130.A13891@cichlids.cichlids.com> <200001081806.MAA13508@cs.rice.edu>
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Thus spake Mohit Aron (aron@cs.rice.edu): > > Well, it's known that SMP produces this overhead. > > The same is for NT and Linux, if you enable SMP and use only 1 > > prozessor. > them in networking and there's no reason why the case should be any different > for SMP support. That was just an example to show you, that this is the problem of SMP stuff. > Its probably the overhead of lock acquirement/release. Which means the > implementation of locking in FreeBSD needs some improvement. Then do it, if you think, that would not have been optimized as wide as possible. Alex -- I doubt, therefore I might be. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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