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From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: dual processors
Date: 19 Jul 1996 11:57:35 +0100
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Terry Lambert (terry@lambert.org) wrote:
[.....]
:              Historically, kernel preemption added a 160% performance
: improvement on UFS in UnixWare 2.x in the UP case, even after lock
: overhead was subtracted out.
[.....]

Looks to me like UnixWare could have done with a few strategically
placed swtch() calls before the preemption was put in.  I would
think that FreeBSD wouldn't gain even close to 160%.

--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....