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Date:      Sat, 30 May 2009 20:55:21 -0700
From:      Kip Macy <kmacy@freebsd.org>
To:        bf <bf2006a@yahoo.com>
Cc:        attilio@freebsd.org, ohartman@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: signifanctly slowdown of FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT/amd64
Message-ID:  <3c1674c90905302055g542cfadarf201cc273639977d@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <951233.95131.qm@web39108.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
References:  <951233.95131.qm@web39108.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

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> I'm running the r193133 amd64 with a custom kernel and all debugging off
> on an AMD Athlon64 3400+ single-core, and I haven't noticed any significa=
nt
> slowing, although I haven't been doing any systematic benchmarking.
>
> What would be the penalties of running an SMP -CURRENT kernel on
> single-core hardware with no hyperthreading? Can anyone quantify the
> typical added overhead? =A0Or, counterintuitively, would an SMP kernel
> be better in some ways?
>

He is trying to diagnose if the problem was introduced by enabling
adaptive spinning on sx locks. They're only enabled on SMP kernels.

Cheers,
Kip



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