On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 05:09:48PM +0200, Teemu Rinta-aho wrote:
> Does anyone know if there has been any analysis on the
> effect of P4 hyperthreading and MP support of NetBSD,
> compared to a UP kernel?

I tested with a make -j4 kernel build. A few % improvements with a MP kernel.
But this is because we have a big kernel lock I think. On linux 2.6, which
has finer-grained locking, a MP kernel increased the build time instead of
decreasing it.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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