Subject: Re: FreeBSD's /dev on NetBSD
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@c2i.net>
List: tech-kern
Date: 08/15/2005 16:13:03
On Sunday 14 August 2005 03:00, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> On Aug 13, 2005, at 3:09 PM, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> > I've heard that NetBSD is very against mutexes. Is this true? Will
> > NetBSD
> > always use one lock for the whole kernel?
>
> Where did you hear that?
I think it was an article at "http://www.bsdnews.com/" or some mailing list.
I cannot find the article right now, but there was a comparison between
FreeBSD 5/6 and NetBSD, where NetBSD was found to be faster, and then there
was some disscussion whether this had to do with mutexes. And then someone
wrote that NetBSD did not use mutexes like on FreeBSD and that this made the
system faster. But someone else said that it was extra checking in the kernel
that made FreeBSD perform so bad in this comparison ...
--HPS