Progress on scaling of FreeBSD on 8 CPU systems

[Kris Kennaway]

On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 01:05:53AM -0500, Andre Guibert de Bruet wrote:
> 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?

Hopefully within a week or two.  It might not be that exact patch, I
think John wants to try and do it a bit differently instead of
introducing a new locking primitive just for this.

Kris
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