KSE, libpthread & libthr: almost newbie question

[gnn at freebsd.org]

At Fri, 27 Oct 2006 14:02:59 +0100 (BST),
rwatson wrote:
> (3).  One of the current theories bouncing around the kernel
> developer community is that the complexity and overhead of (2)
> outweighs many of the benefits of KSE, and that by making it an
> option, we can better evaluate the impact.  Notice that this isn't
> just about code complexity, but also about scheduler overhead.
> David Xu has reported a non-trivial performance change from the
> reduced overhead of the scheduler paths.  So now we're at a point
> where we can more fully evaluate the impact of KSE (since we can
> actually compile it out of the scheduler).  Before anything further
> can be done, we now need to do that evaluation.
> 

And speaking of evaluation if people can follow the advice here:

http://wikitest.freebsd.org/BenchmarkAdvice

It would be greatly appreciated.

Best,
George