On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 02:41:35PM -0600, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > > > On Sun, 25 Nov 2007, Robert Watson wrote: > > >........................ > >In FreeBSD 8, I expect we'll see a continued focus on both locking > >granularity and improving opportunities for kernel parallelism by better > >distributing workloads over CPU pools. This is important because the > >number of cores/chip is continuing to increase dramatically, so MP > >performance is going to be important to keep working on. That said, the > >results to date have been extremely promising, and I anticipate that we > >will continue to find ways to better exploit multiprocessor hardware, > >especially in the network stack. > > > > I just want to add my 2 cents, that my recent experience with FreeBSD MP > has been extremely positive. I tend to use highly CPU bound MP programs, > typically lots and lots of floating point operations. It used to be that > Linux beat FreeBSD hands down - now FreeBSD seems to have a slight edge! > Basically my program runs about twice as fast when I run two threads as > opposed to one - I cannot see doing any better than that!
pure computation does not need kernel operations most of the time.. ie. multi-threading kernel wont help much ;) _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
