Re: Linuxthreads on Linux vs FreeBSD performance question

2002-04-08 Thread John Regehr
reading this message in the archives: this draft will disappear a few days after this message is posted. The final copy of the paper will be available around April 16 2002 and will be linked to the same site where the Hourglass software is located: http://www.cs.utah.edu/~regehr/hourglass Thank

Re: Linuxthreads on Linux vs FreeBSD performance question

2002-04-04 Thread John Regehr
> > > Have you tried benchmarking process to process context switch times to see > > > if the results are similar? I put a quartet of histograms here: http://www.cs.utah.edu/~regehr/freebsd_ctx_quantum.eps http://www.cs.utah.edu/~regehr/freebsd_ctx_yield.eps that demonstrate, basically, wha

Re: Linuxthreads on Linux vs FreeBSD performance question

2002-04-04 Thread John Regehr
> The problem is that it's not clear what the graphs you posted > are comparing. In the context of the paper, this will probably > be mitigated somewhat. However, there are a lot of people who > will turn directly to the graphs in any paper, and yell about > them, so I doubt you are safe, not ma

Re: Linuxthreads on Linux vs FreeBSD performance question

2002-04-04 Thread John Regehr
wo Linuxthreads, when the system load consists of 10 CPU-bound threads and very little other activity oranges == expected time to execute the FreeBSD context switch code when switching between two Linuxthreads, when the system load consists of 10 CPU-bound threads and very little other activity Than

Re: Linuxthreads on Linux vs FreeBSD performance question

2002-04-03 Thread John Regehr
threads binaries compile on linux (using > emulation) and compiled on FreeBSD. it would be interesting to see > if there is a difference.. There does not appear to be a statistically significant difference between a native binary and an emulated Linux binary. Thanks, John Regehr To Uns

Linuxthreads on Linux vs FreeBSD performance question

2002-04-03 Thread John Regehr
2) some other kind of semantic mismatch between Linuxthreads and rfork. Is one of these guesses right? Any help appreciated. Thanks, John Regehr To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message