On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 08:43:28PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 02:52:07AM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > OK, David's patch fixes the umtx thundering herd (and seems to give a > > 4-6% boost). I also fixed a thundering herd in FILEDESC_UNLOCK (which > > was also waking up 2-7 CPUs at once about 30% of the time) by doing > > s/wakeup/wakeup_one/. This did not seem to give a performance impact > > on this test though. > > Turning down kern.hz from 1000 to 100 also made a big difference on 12 > CPUs (+6.1%). > > Note also that the system is no less than 40% idle during the runs (at > any load), so the bottlenecks are serious.
top -H shows the threads mostly in umtx state. Kris
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