Re: [perf-discuss] CMT project

2008-08-19 Thread Michael Pogue
+1 from me. Great idea. Mike Jonathan Chew wrote: > I would like to get sponsorship from the OpenSolaris performance > community to host a CMT project which will focus on observability, > performance enhancements, and potentially more in OpenSolaris for Chip > Multi-Threaded (CMT) processors

Re: [perf-discuss] CMT project

2008-08-18 Thread Jonathan Chew
Elad Lahav wrote: > Hi Jonathan, > > I am currently looking into different affinity policies on the Niagara > architecture, including the application threads and interrupt handlers. We are interested in affinity scheduling too. > An important aspect of this work is the hierarchy of processing

Re: [perf-discuss] CMT project

2008-08-16 Thread Elad Lahav
Hi Jonathan, I am currently looking into different affinity policies on the Niagara architecture, including the application threads and interrupt handlers. An important aspect of this work is the hierarchy of processing units (chips, cores, threads) with respect to cache sharing, resource util

Re: [perf-discuss] CMT project

2008-08-15 Thread Eric Saxe
+1. I think this project (and the NUMA one) will be good vehicles for opening the development and discussion around the areas outlined. Thanks, -Eric Jonathan Chew wrote: > I would like to get sponsorship from the OpenSolaris performance > community to host a CMT project which will focus on ob

[perf-discuss] CMT project

2008-08-15 Thread Jonathan Chew
I would like to get sponsorship from the OpenSolaris performance community to host a CMT project which will focus on observability, performance enhancements, and potentially more in OpenSolaris for Chip Multi-Threaded (CMT) processors (including SMT, CMP, etc.). Specifically, the project will t