Progress on scaling of FreeBSD on 8 CPU systems

[Andre Guibert de Bruet]

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

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