From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 25 06:21:10 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 D5B3F16A400; Sun, 25 Feb 2007 06:21:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andy@siliconlandmark.com) Received: from lexi.siliconlandmark.com (lexi.siliconlandmark.com [209.69.98.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DA7B13C441; Sun, 25 Feb 2007 06:21:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andy@siliconlandmark.com) Received: from [10.0.1.5] (cpe-24-33-245-212.twmi.res.rr.com [24.33.245.212]) by lexi.siliconlandmark.com (8.13.8/8.13.3) with ESMTP id l1P65rJa028783; Sun, 25 Feb 2007 01:05:53 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from andy@siliconlandmark.com) In-Reply-To: <20070225054120.GA47059@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20070224213111.GB41434@xor.obsecurity.org> <346a80220702242100i7ec22b5h4b25cc7d20d03e98@mail.gmail.com> <20070225054120.GA47059@xor.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <1C143520-B893-4F43-8F7E-04B021D2EE69@siliconlandmark.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Andre Guibert de Bruet Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 01:05:53 -0500 To: Kris Kennaway X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.3) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88.7/2647/Sat Feb 24 19:13:21 2007 on lexi.siliconlandmark.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-SL-MailScanner: Not scanned: please contact your Internet E-Mail Service Provider for details X-SL-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-0.014, required 6, AWL 0.54, BAYES_00 -2.60, RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL 2.05, SPF_PASS -0.00) X-MailScanner-From: andy@siliconlandmark.com X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 12:32:23 +0000 Cc: smp@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org 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 06:21:10 -0000 On Feb 25, 2007, at 12:41 AM, Kris Kennaway wrote: > 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 >> tree with >> 4BSD or ULE ? How do those stand up against the Linux SMP >> scheduler for >> scalability. It would be nice to see the comparison displayed to >> see what >> the performance improvements of the aforementioned patch were >> realized to. >> This would likely be a nice graphics for the SMPng project page, >> BTW... > > There are graphs of this on Jeff's blog, referenced in that URL. > Fixing filedesc locking makes a HUGE difference. Kris, This is fantastic news! Is there an approximate date for when all of these patches are going to hit CVS? Keep up the great work! :) Andy /* Andre Guibert de Bruet * 6f43 6564 7020 656f 2e74 4220 7469 6a20 */ /* Code poet / Sysadmin * 636f 656b 2e79 5320 7379 6461 696d 2e6e */ /* GSM: +1 734 846 8758 * 5520 494e 2058 6c73 7565 6874 002e 0000 */ /* WWW: siliconlandmark.com * C/C++, Java, Perl, PHP, SQL, XHTML, XML */