Re: [9fans] userspace semlocks

2013-09-23 Thread erik quanstrom
here's the raw data from a seperate run, and slightly different code, and a different machine. this is a test with thread(2) channels with T tx procs × R rx procs: ; aux/cpuid -i Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31230 @ 3.20GHz ; wc -l /dev/sysstat 8 /dev/sysstat ; for(i in 1 2 4 8 16)time 6

Re: [9fans] userspace semlocks

2013-09-23 Thread erik quanstrom
> On 22 September 2013 03:55, erik quanstrom wrote: > > > > > new 1.55e10 O=10M=8 > > old 2.74e10 > > > > new 3.64e10 O=0 M=8 > > old 5.14e10 > > > > am i doing something fundamental wrong, or are the new locks substantially

Re: [9fans] userspace semlocks

2013-09-23 Thread Charles Forsyth
On 22 September 2013 03:55, erik quanstrom wrote: > > new 1.55e10 O=10M=8 > old 2.74e10 > > new 3.64e10 O=0 M=8 > old 5.14e10 > > am i doing something fundamental wrong, or are the new locks substantially > slower than the ol

[9fans] gsoc: a few pictures of html5 devdraw progresss

2013-09-23 Thread erik quanstrom
http://davidrhoskin.com/gsoc/2013/img/ - erik

Re: [9fans] userspace semlocks

2013-09-23 Thread erik quanstrom
> you are missing the reason. read the paper. the paper in question one assumes is "Semaphores in Plan 9", Sape Mullender and Russ Cox, IWP9, 2008. the idea in the paper is the scheduler might hurt, but i don't think there's any real development of that idea. so it's also possible that the sched

[9fans] updated firmware for latest Raspberry Pi boards

2013-09-23 Thread Richard Miller
I recently acquired another pi and found it wouldn't boot with any of my existing sd cards. It seems there has been a hardware change at some point (new RAM chip?) which requires a new version of the firmware which runs on the Broadcom GPU. I've updated the dos partition of the sd card image in /