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multiprocessor servers.
FreeBSD 7.0, due out in late 2007, brings many new features
- as well as performance advancements. With a special focus on storage
+ and performance enhancements. With a special focus on storage
and multiprocessing performance, FreeBSD 7.0 will ship with support
for Sun's ZFS file system and highly scalable
multiprocessing performance. Benchmarks have shown that FreeBSD
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systems on 8-core servers.
- - SMPng: After seven year's of development on advanced SMP
- support, FreeBSD 7.0 realized the goals of a fine-grained kernel
+
- SMPng: After seven years of development on advanced SMP
+ support, FreeBSD 7.0 realizes the goals of a fine-grained kernel
allowing linear scalability to over 8 CPU cores for many workloads.
FreeBSD 7.0 sees an almost complete elimination of the Giant Lock,
- removing it from the CAM storage layer and NFS client, moving
+ removing it from the CAM storage layer and NFS client, and moving
towards more fine-grained locking in the network subsystem.
Significant work has also been performed to optimize kernel
scheduling and locking primitives, and the optional ULE scheduler
allows thread CPU affinity and per-CPU run queues to reduce
- overhead and increase cache-friendliness. Benchmarks reveal a
- dramatic performance advantage over other &unix; operating systems
- on identical multicore hardware, and reflect a long investment in
- new SMP technology for the FreeBSD kernel.
+ overhead and increase cache-friendliness. The libthr threading
+ package, providing 1:1 threading, is now the default. Benchmarks
+ reveal a dramatic performance advantage over other &unix; operating
+ systems on identical multicore hardware, and reflect a long
+ investment in SMP technology for the FreeBSD kernel.
- ZFS filesystem: Sun's ZFS is a state-of-the-art file
system offering simple administration, transactional semantics,