On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 04:00:05PM -0800, Chris Cappuccio wrote: > Eduardo Meyer [dudu.me...@gmail.com] wrote: > > > > I will try > > ftp://ftp.openbsd.org//pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/sparc64/install55.iso right > > now. Other than simply running it is there anything else I should look at, > > or any new command line tool to play around? > > > > Nope. All improvements here are going to be in the kernel. There is > work going on in the myx driver, for instance this change by dlg: > > "introduce fine grained locking around the lists of packet handlers > myx maintains. this moves it away from relying on splnet to protect > them." > > http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/dev/pci/if_myx.c.diff?r1=1.47;r2=1.48 > > Nobody has done anything like this in if_em yet, but perhaps someone > will step up. For that matter, myx interrupts aren't yet distributed > across cores, but appear to be getting closer to that possibility.
Don't expect too much from this yet. This is more of a test balloon to see what is neccessary also I guess at first the performance will degrade. -- :wq Claudio
