On 2007-05-19, Gergo Szakal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 18 May 2007 16:46:27 -0700 (PDT) > Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> A large chunk of the kernel still runs under the big giant >> lock, including the light weight processes that libthread_xu >> uses, so something like mysql is going to hit a lot of BGL >> contention. >> > > BTW shouldn't he test the libthread_xu capabilities with Preview instead?
If there is a reasonable expectation that Preview will perform differently then I am happy to test it, but the way I read Matt's email is that there has been no recent progress on SMP development that might improve performance here. Kris
