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Date:      Mon, 15 Nov 2004 23:42:17 +0200
From:      Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc:        freebsd-threads@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: performance tuning
Message-ID:  <419922B9.7050603@he.iki.fi>
In-Reply-To: <41991B66.4090801@elischer.org>
References:  <419914F0.1010308@he.iki.fi> <41991A87.6010803@elischer.org> <41991B66.4090801@elischer.org>

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Julian Elischer wrote:

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>> There is work proceeding on 3 fronts.
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>> * libthr continues to be improved by Mike.
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Is there a guideline when one should consider using libthr? I haven't 
tried libthr for quite a while.

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>> * libpthread is being scrutinised for ineffiencies and problems.
>>   In particular M:N performance has a lot to be desired.
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I suppose this requires both userland and kernel tracing/profiling?

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>> Is that the American or British meaning of Momentarily?
>> (i.e. "IN a moment" or "FOR a moment"? )   :-)
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American. Do I sound like I talk funny? :-)

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>> What we will really want eventually is KTR output as well as profilings.
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>> i.e. output of ktrdump.
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Do you have set of ALQ, MASK etc. you're interested in? It would help if 
I could get a ready set of options to drop into the kernel...

Pete



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