Subject: Re: x86 Port outperforms SPARC64 port on NetBSD v2.0.2
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
From: Chuck Silvers <chuq@chuq.com>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 10/05/2005 19:00:17
On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 10:39:31PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > I made my comment based on the following article
> > 
> > http://os.newsforge.com/print.pl?sid=05/06/09/2132233
> > 
> > Where Christos Zoulas states that threads from a single process cannot use more
> > than one CPU
> > 
> > So, I guess this is something that NetBSD needs to impove
> 
> There were bugs with PTHREAD_CONCURRENCY > 1, I guess Christos had this in
> mind when he said that. I think these issues have been fixed now.

the problems with PTHREAD_CONCURRENCY > 1 are less now than before...
the kernel no longer crashes, but applications still get assertion failures
in the pthread library.  at least, that's what I've seen with apache using
the worker MPM.

-Chuck