On 2020-08-16, Kihaguru Gathura <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > It depends on the workload. I'd have thought for most things the max >> really usable at the moment is probably somewhere in the region of 4-8 >> cpu cores before kernel locking gets in the way too much. >> >> FWIW sparc64 ports builds are now done on T4 and they're really fast. >> I think (but am not 100% sure) that this is carved into ldoms so the >> number of cores visible to each OpenBSD instance is limited (so >> contention between cores in the kernel is also limited). >> >> > Up to how many cores will it be guaranteed that kernel locking 'will not > get too much in the way' for hardware running a single instance of OpenBSD > under heavy workload? > > Kind Regards, > > Kihaguru. >
There are no guarantees.
