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. -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \'[ FreeBSD ]''''''''''\ <> green@FreeBSD.org \ The Power to Serve! \ Opinions expressed are my own. \,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,\
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