Benchmark (Phoronix): FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 vs. Oracle Linux 6.1 Server

[Adrian Chadd]

Hi,

I think this thread has gone far, far off the rails.

If you're able to provide some solid debugging or willing to put in
the effort to provide said solid debugging, then great. The easier you
can make it for someone to fix for you (whether they're a FreeBSD
committer or otherwise) the more likely it'll be fixed.

There's no-one notionally in charge and paid to look after the
scheduler. This is the unfortunate truth. No amount of saying "but but
people are paid to do this!" will fix that particular point.

The way that 99% of FreeBSD work gets done is when someone (who is a
committer or otherwise) gets angry at how something doesn't quite work
for them, and they decide to go and do something about it. The only
point where a committer needs be involved is when someone wants to
push their code into "upstream" (to borrow a Linux-ism) FreeBSD.

If you're able to setup KTR and drive it + schedgraph (just like Steve
has) and run this on a workload that is _repeatedly_ broken for you,
then you're immediately going to have a better chance at getting it
fixed. Bonus points if you can run the same benchmark on 4BSD and ULE,
reporting KTR + schedgraph traces for both.

That is going to be _by far_ the most helpful thing anyone can do in
this ridiculously overly-verbose thread.

Come on guys/girls/fuzzy creatr