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Date:      Fri, 9 Nov 2007 18:55:19 -0800
From:      "Josh Carroll" <josh.carroll@gmail.com>
To:        "Jeff Roberson" <jroberson@chesapeake.net>
Cc:        freebsd-performance@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ULE vs. 4BSD in RELENG_7
Message-ID:  <8cb6106e0711091855x1305ee2bt6d57696df7c7564@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20071109145827.W639@10.0.0.1>
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> Josh,  I had an interesting thought today.  What if the reason 4BSD is
> faster is because it distributes load more evenly across all packages
> because it distributes randomly?  ULE distributed across cores evenly but
> not packages.   Can you try the attached patch?  This also turns the
> default slice size down but does not contain the other context switch
> performance improvements.

Hi Jeff,

here are the results:

ffmpeg:  1:38.885

sysbench: (4,8,12,16 threads respectively):
   2221.93
   2327.87
   2292.49
   2269.29

And buildworld: 13m47.052s

Much improved! :)

Josh



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