Progress on scaling of FreeBSD on 8 CPU systems

[Kris Kennaway]

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