Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 13:06:57 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Gerrit Nagelhout <gnagelhout@sandvine.com> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 4.7 vs 5.2.1 SMP/UP bridging performance Message-ID: <20040504200657.GA22430@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <FE045D4D9F7AED4CBFF1B3B813C85337021AB372@mail.sandvine.com> References: <FE045D4D9F7AED4CBFF1B3B813C85337021AB372@mail.sandvine.com>
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--PNTmBPCT7hxwcZjr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 03:55:32PM -0400, Gerrit Nagelhout wrote: > I would like to move to CURRENT for new hardware support, and the=20 > ability to properly use multi-threading in user-space, but can't do > this until the performance bottlenecks are solved. I realize that=20 > 5.x is still a work in progress and hasn't been tuned as well as 4.7=20 > yet, but are there any plans for optimizations in this area? Does=20 > anyone have any suggestions on what else I can try? Try rwatson's netperf patches: http://www.watson.org/~robert/freebsd/netperf/ There is at least one outstanding panic condition known, but more testing will be a great help. Kris P.S. You didn't mention the status of WITNESS, but I'm assuming you read the docs and disabled it since it's a huge performance killer. --PNTmBPCT7hxwcZjr Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAl/fgWry0BWjoQKURAo6NAKCpSrIci6XpEto7PzwSsyTbkab3VACgg33M 7PUj5HR8E8mz1wM2MaoNx2E= =xxOy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --PNTmBPCT7hxwcZjr--
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