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Date:      Wed, 22 Dec 2004 00:48:02 -0500
From:      Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@freebsd.org>
To:        Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org>
Cc:        JINMEI Tatuya <jinmei@isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp>
Subject:   Re: BIND9 performance issues with SMP
Message-ID:  <20041222054802.GE41996@green.homeunix.org>
In-Reply-To: <41C8BD1C.9090507@freebsd.org>
References:  <y7vwtvbmcrf.wl@ocean.jinmei.org> <41C8BD1C.9090507@freebsd.org>

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On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 05:17:32PM -0700, Scott Long wrote:
> Do you have any comparisons to NetBSD or Solaris?  Comparing to Linux
> often results in comparing apples to oranges since there is
> long-standing suspicion that Linux cuts corners where BSD does not.
> Also, would you be able to re-run your tests using the THR thread
> package?

Also, shouldn't PTHREAD_MUTEX_NORMAL (_not_ the default in FreeBSD)
have possible speed ramifications?

I concur with the observation that libpthread generally offers no
performance increase over libc_r (whereas linuxthreads very much
increases performance).  I don't presume to have nearly enough
knowledge to contribute meaningfully to the thread libraries or
the scheduler, though.

-- 
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  <> green@FreeBSD.org                               \  The Power to Serve! \
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