lock contention etc.

[Julian Elischer]

Ivan Voras wrote:
> Julian Elischer wrote:
> 
>>     3762.94 real      2627.66 user      1275.78 sys
>>     2465.10 real      2958.94 user      1918.64 sys
>>     2262.88 real      4322.31 user      3333.58 sys
> 
>> (2 processors with HTT)  (looks like 4 processors)
>> -current, sched_4bsd
> 
> I'm possibly stating the obvious, but did you try without HTT or on a
> real 4proc machine? Much of the contention might be an artifact of HTT
> (e.g. HTT "logical" processor blocking when real work could be done
> because the internal processor units are busy elsewhere).
> 
> 

yes I just sent an email stating that.
And I'm trying it again with the virtual cores turned off.