Our SMP implementation scalability

Petr Janda elekktretterr at exemail.com.au
Wed Jan 17 07:37:17 PST 2007


Could you take a guess (just for being informed) how much of the system 
is under the BGL and how much is MPSAFE?

Petr

Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote:
Petr Janda wrote:
I was reading an older news article comparing FreeBSD's SMPng and 
Linux's SMP saying that Linux scales nicely on 10+ cpu's but FreeBSD 
has problem with 6 or more. So my question is, would DragonFly's SMP 
scale as good as Linux?
not even close.  we're still under the giant lock.







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