On 1/18/07, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I disagree with you about FreeBSD's SMP architecture being difficult
to develop and optimize (there are several really good tools for that,
like witness, lock profiling, pmc, and dtrace, etc), but at least
there are half a dozen or more people
On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 09:26:32AM +1100, Dmitri Nikulin wrote:
> To memory-quote Matt, it should scale really well in theory, because
> most things are naturally lockless and so aren't co-dependent. FreeBSD
> scales badly (though improving) because there are complex locks
> everywhere, and even in
On 1/18/07, Erik Wikström <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 2007-01-17 16:31, Petr Janda wrote:
Even more interesting would be a guess of how good it might scale when
you finally get rid of BGL.
To memory-quote Matt, it should scale really well in theory, because
most things are naturally lockless
On 2007-01-17 16:31, Petr Janda wrote:
Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote:
Petr Janda wrote:
I was reading an older news article comparing FreeBSD's SMPng and
Linux's SMP saying that Linux scales nicely on 10+ cpu's but FreeBSD
has problem with 6 or more. So my question is, would DragonFly's SMP
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:Petr
Not while people are still making major commits :-).
I am reworking the MACHINE and MACHINE_ARCH stuff today. We could
theoretically branch tomorrow but it only creates more headaches
if it is done while people are still committing major work so it
could be d
Could you take a guess (just for being informed) how much of the system
is under the BGL and how much is MPSAFE?
Petr
Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote:
Petr Janda wrote:
I was reading an older news article comparing FreeBSD's SMPng and
Linux's SMP saying that Linux scales nicely on 10+ cpu's b
Petr Janda wrote:
I was reading an older news article comparing FreeBSD's SMPng and
Linux's SMP saying that Linux scales nicely on 10+ cpu's but FreeBSD has
problem with 6 or more. So my question is, would DragonFly's SMP scale
as good as Linux?
not even close. we're still under the giant lo
I was reading an older news article comparing FreeBSD's SMPng and
Linux's SMP saying that Linux scales nicely on 10+ cpu's but FreeBSD has
problem with 6 or more. So my question is, would DragonFly's SMP scale
as good as Linux?
Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote:
i'm waiting for the release to be branched before working on it again.
no need to destabilize the release. additionally, it is a bitch to work
with multiple patches in CVS :/
Reminds me, I still haven't cleaned up David Xu's latest patch to fit
the reorderin
Petr Janda wrote:
Hi again,
Im just wondering (namely Simon),whats the status of 1:1 userland
threading? What's holding it back? I thought there was meant to be a
lot of work done before new years even during the hackathon.
we did some stuff and we planned even more. we're few people, so it
Hi again,
Im just wondering (namely Simon),whats the status of 1:1 userland
threading? What's holding it back? I thought there was meant to be a
lot of work done before new years even during the hackathon.
Cheers,
Petr
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Petr
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