> If you are asking for paper references, then I can at least tell > you where to start; go to: http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/cs and look > for "Jeff Mogul", "DEC Western Research Laboratories", "Mohit > Aron", "Peter Druschel", "Sally Floyd", Van Jacobson", "SCALA", > "TCP Rate halving", "Receiver Livelock", "RICE University", > "Duke University", "University of Utah". That will at least get > you most of the papers. Then follow the references to the other > papers. > These seem quite network-heavy, I was more interested in references of SMP stuff and how the coherency is maintained and what is the overhead of maintaining the coherency in read/write operations and how alignment helps/screws you with different word-sizes in IA32 architechture.
Writing a coarse SMP memory benchmark should be easy, I wonder if it has been done? Judging from the profiling I´ve done on both kernel and userland things, copying memory around is among the most expensive things to do in modern multi-GHz machines. Doing arithmetic to decrease memory bandwidth requirements pays off very well. The thing I´m still wondering about is how expensive is writing compared to reading. Pete To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
