Martin Cracauer wrote:
I tried to model different worklods. The parallel part of my benchmark suite has CPU-heavy processes, short plain http, php, long plain http and mixtures thereof. None of these showed the SMP kernel to be an overall disadvantage on a one-processor system.
What you want is to find a real-world workload that exercises a lot of mutexes. These exist, and they'll see the most pessimization from running SMP kernel on UP.
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