Our SMP implementation scalability

[Erik Wikström]

On 2007-01-17 16:31, Petr Janda wrote:
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.

Could you take a guess (just for being informed) how much of the system 
is under the BGL and how much is MPSAFE?
Even more interesting would be a guess of how good it might scale when 
you finally get rid of BGL.

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Erik Wikström