Re: Lastest snapshot - all application got a speed increase

2024-08-07 Thread Christian Schulte
On 07.08.24 13:54, Mihai Popescu wrote: > On Wed, Aug 7, 2024 at 2:35 PM Janne Johansson wrote: >> >>> What is this kernel lock everybody talks about. I mean what is locked? >>> Some actions must be done and devs call lock before and after it is >>> done, they call unlock? >>> What is kernel lock

Re: Lastest snapshot - all application got a speed increase

2024-08-07 Thread José Maldonado
El mié, 7 ago 2024 a la(s) 10:04 a.m., Janne Johansson (icepic...@gmail.com) escribió: > > > > > What is this kernel lock everybody talks about. I mean what is locked? > > > > Some actions must be done and devs call lock before and after it is > > > > done, they call unlock? > > > > What is kernel

Re: Lastest snapshot - all application got a speed increase

2024-08-07 Thread Walter Alejandro Iglesias
On Wed, Aug 07, 2024 at 07:25:00AM -, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2024-08-07, Mihai Popescu wrote: > > Is it some change in graphics? Some changes in kernel? > > There's a reasonable chance it's Claudio's "Stop using KERNEL_LOCK to > protect the per process kqueue list" commit. select() and

Re: Lastest snapshot - all application got a speed increase

2024-08-07 Thread Mihai Popescu
See the inserted comments, please. On Wed, Aug 7, 2024 at 3:54 PM Janne Johansson wrote: > > > > > What is this kernel lock everybody talks about. I mean what is locked? > > > > Some actions must be done and devs call lock before and after it is > > > > done, they call unlock? > > > > What is ker

Re: Lastest snapshot - all application got a speed increase

2024-08-07 Thread Janne Johansson
> > > What is this kernel lock everybody talks about. I mean what is locked? > > > Some actions must be done and devs call lock before and after it is > > > done, they call unlock? > > > What is kernel lock doing exactly, it prevents other procedures to run? > I was on wikipedia, i did my gogling.

Re: Lastest snapshot - all application got a speed increase

2024-08-07 Thread Mihai Popescu
On Wed, Aug 7, 2024 at 2:35 PM Janne Johansson wrote: > > > What is this kernel lock everybody talks about. I mean what is locked? > > Some actions must be done and devs call lock before and after it is > > done, they call unlock? > > What is kernel lock doing exactly, it prevents other procedures

Re: Lastest snapshot - all application got a speed increase

2024-08-07 Thread Janne Johansson
> What is this kernel lock everybody talks about. I mean what is locked? > Some actions must be done and devs call lock before and after it is > done, they call unlock? > What is kernel lock doing exactly, it prevents other procedures to run? It is quite a large topic, but the 30 second intro is h

Re: Lastest snapshot - all application got a speed increase

2024-08-07 Thread Mihai Popescu
It is really fabulous. I never think of that speed gain. What is this kernel lock everybody talks about. I mean what is locked? Some actions must be done and devs call lock before and after it is done, they call unlock? What is kernel lock doing exactly, it prevents other procedures to run? I am n

Re: Lastest snapshot - all application got a speed increase

2024-08-07 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2024-08-07, Mihai Popescu wrote: > Is it some change in graphics? Some changes in kernel? There's a reasonable chance it's Claudio's "Stop using KERNEL_LOCK to protect the per process kqueue list" commit. select() and poll() are implemented using kqueue these days and are very common.

Lastest snapshot - all application got a speed increase

2024-08-06 Thread Mihai Popescu
Hello, Nothing wrong to report, but after installing latest amd64 snapshot i was happy to see that there is a speed increase in all application GUIs. Maybe the background run got some speed to, i didn't checked yet. Chromium is brilliantly fast, no delays in opening, minimal delays in rendering p