Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 20:18:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 20:18:13 -0500 Received: from freeside.toyota.com ([63.87.74.7]:61073 "EHLO freeside.toyota.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 20:18:11 -0500 Message-ID: <3E1F72D7.7050505@lexus.com> Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 17:26:47 -0800 From: jjs User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marc-Christian Petersen CC: Bill Abt , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: NGPT 2.2.0 RELEASED: TOPS LINUXTHREADS AND NPTL IN SCALABILITY AND PERFORMANCE References: <200301110203.09346.m.c.p@gmx.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 975 Lines: 35 Marc-Christian Petersen wrote: >On Friday 10 January 2003 20:58, Bill Abt wrote: > >Hi Bill, > > > >>In this release, the primary focus was performance. Significant >>performance and scalability enhance- >>ments have been made to this release making it the fastest and most >>scalable POSIX compliant >>threads package available on the Linux platform. >> >> >hmm, can this be true? > The benchmarks are likely an accurate, good faith measurement of the stated systems, and ngpt is obviously an improvement over the old linuxthreads - But according to my understanding, a more accurate measure of nptl performance would require a current glibc, with the nptl-specific enhancements - or am I missing something here? Joe - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/