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[Robert Watson]

On Wed, 23 Apr 2008, Darren Reed wrote:

> Out of curiosity, were those numbers for single cpu/core systems or systems 
> with more than one cpu/core active/available?
>
> I know the testing I did was all single threaded, so moving time from kernel 
> to user couldn't be expected to make a large overall difference in a non-SMP 
> kernel (NetBSD-something at the time.)

I believe all multi-core.

BTW, if you are set up to do performance measurement on BPF, we'd really love 
to see further feedback relating to successful or unsuccessful measurement.

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge