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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. 


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