Re: about that DFBSD performance test

2017-03-11 Thread Sepherosa Ziehau
On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 8:25 PM, Kevin Bowling wrote: > Right off the bat, FreeBSD doesn't really understand NUMA in any sufficient > capacity. Unfortunately at companies like the one I work at, we take that > to mean "OK buy a high bin CPU and only populate one socket" which serves > us well and

Re: about that DFBSD performance test

2017-03-09 Thread Anton Yuzhaninov
On 03/08/17 10:03, Mateusz Guzik wrote: First and foremost there is general kernel scalability. Certain counters and most locks are purely managed with atomic operations. An atomic operation grabs the entire cacheline with the particular variable (64 bytes in total) in exclusive mode. Isn't pro

Re: about that DFBSD performance test

2017-03-08 Thread Slawa Olhovchenkov
On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 04:03:46PM +0100, Mateusz Guzik wrote: > On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 03:57:10PM +0300, Slawa Olhovchenkov wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 05:25:57AM -0700, Kevin Bowling wrote: > > > > > Right off the bat, FreeBSD doesn't really understand NUMA in any > > > sufficient > >

Re: about that DFBSD performance test

2017-03-08 Thread Mateusz Guzik
On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 03:57:10PM +0300, Slawa Olhovchenkov wrote: > On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 05:25:57AM -0700, Kevin Bowling wrote: > > > Right off the bat, FreeBSD doesn't really understand NUMA in any sufficient > > capacity. Unfortunately at companies like the one I work at, we take that > >

Re: about that DFBSD performance test

2017-03-08 Thread Slawa Olhovchenkov
On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 05:25:57AM -0700, Kevin Bowling wrote: > Right off the bat, FreeBSD doesn't really understand NUMA in any sufficient > capacity. Unfortunately at companies like the one I work at, we take that > to mean "OK buy a high bin CPU and only populate one socket" which serves NUM

Re: about that DFBSD performance test

2017-03-08 Thread Kevin Bowling
Right off the bat, FreeBSD doesn't really understand NUMA in any sufficient capacity. Unfortunately at companies like the one I work at, we take that to mean "OK buy a high bin CPU and only populate one socket" which serves us well and may ultimately be the best value but does nothing to address t

Re: about that DFBSD performance test

2017-03-08 Thread Slawa Olhovchenkov
On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 09:00:34AM +0500, Eugene M. Zheganin wrote: > Hi. > > Some have probably seen this already - > http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/users/2017-March/313254.html > > So, could anyone explain why FreeBSD was owned that much. Test is split > into two parts, one is ngin

about that DFBSD performance test

2017-03-07 Thread Eugene M. Zheganin
Hi. Some have probably seen this already - http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/users/2017-March/313254.html So, could anyone explain why FreeBSD was owned that much. Test is split into two parts, one is nginx part, and the other is the IPv4 forwarding part. I understand that nginx ownag