From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 25 06:09:10 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 379F816A401; Sun, 25 Feb 2007 06:09:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FE7E13C491; Sun, 25 Feb 2007 06:09:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0433C1A4D80; Sat, 24 Feb 2007 22:09:10 -0800 (PST) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 3463E51C41; Sun, 25 Feb 2007 01:09:09 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 01:09:09 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway To: Andre Guibert de Bruet Message-ID: <20070225060908.GA47476@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20070224213111.GB41434@xor.obsecurity.org> <346a80220702242100i7ec22b5h4b25cc7d20d03e98@mail.gmail.com> <20070225054120.GA47059@xor.obsecurity.org> <1C143520-B893-4F43-8F7E-04B021D2EE69@siliconlandmark.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="2fHTh5uZTiUOsy+g" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1C143520-B893-4F43-8F7E-04B021D2EE69@siliconlandmark.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: smp@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: Progress on scaling of FreeBSD on 8 CPU systems X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 06:09:10 -0000 --2fHTh5uZTiUOsy+g Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 01:05:53AM -0500, Andre Guibert de Bruet wrote: > On Feb 25, 2007, at 12:41 AM, Kris Kennaway wrote: >=20 > >On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 10:00:35PM -0700, Coleman Kane wrote: > > > >>What does the performance curve look like for the in-CVS 7-CURRENT =20 > >>tree with > >>4BSD or ULE ? How do those stand up against the Linux SMP =20 > >>scheduler for > >>scalability. It would be nice to see the comparison displayed to =20 > >>see what > >>the performance improvements of the aforementioned patch were =20 > >>realized to. > >>This would likely be a nice graphics for the SMPng project page, =20 > >>BTW... > > > >There are graphs of this on Jeff's blog, referenced in that URL. > >Fixing filedesc locking makes a HUGE difference. >=20 > Kris, >=20 > This is fantastic news! Is there an approximate date for when all of =20 > these patches are going to hit CVS? Hopefully within a week or two. It might not be that exact patch, I think John wants to try and do it a bit differently instead of introducing a new locking primitive just for this. Kris --2fHTh5uZTiUOsy+g Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFF4SgEWry0BWjoQKURAorkAJ42xCwaSaaBP4BpoRf6gWmJ1HMxsgCeI6uH hj9/ZDlMxdlVeW+3ry/seJE= =Uks7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --2fHTh5uZTiUOsy+g--