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From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
Cc: Con Kolivas <conman@kolivas.net>,
	linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [BENCHMARK] 2.5.46-mm1 with contest
Date: 07 Nov 2002 19:04:08 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1036713848.764.2107.camel@phantasy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3DCAFE38.16DED3BF@digeo.com>

On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 18:58, Andrew Morton wrote:

> Robert Love wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 17:53, Con Kolivas wrote:
> > 
> > > io_load:
> > > Kernel [runs]           Time    CPU%    Loads   LCPU%   Ratio
> > > 2.5.44-mm6 [3]          284.1   28      20      10      3.98
> > > 2.5.46 [1]              600.5   13      48      12      8.41
> > > 2.5.46-mm1 [5]          134.3   58      6       8       1.88
> > >
> > > Big change here. IO load is usually the one we feel the most.
> > 
> > Nice.
> 
> Mysterious.

Why?  We are preempting during the generic file write/read routines, I
bet, which can otherwise be long periods of latency.  CPU is up and I
bet the throughput is down, but his test is getting the attention it
wants.

	Robert Love


  reply	other threads:[~2002-11-07 23:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-11-07 22:53 [BENCHMARK] 2.5.46-mm1 with contest Con Kolivas
2002-11-07 23:48 ` Robert Love
2002-11-07 23:58   ` Andrew Morton
2002-11-08  0:04     ` Robert Love [this message]
2002-11-08  6:04       ` Con Kolivas
2002-11-08  0:10     ` Benjamin LaHaise
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-11-08  0:32 Alan Willis
2002-11-08  0:48 ` Andrew Morton
2002-11-08 21:08   ` Alan Willis
2002-11-08 21:21     ` Andrew Morton
     [not found]       ` <YWxhbg==.a11f3fbc6d68c50c7f190513c1d3bacf@1037045821.cotse.net>
2002-11-11 21:03         ` Andrew Morton
2002-11-11 21:11           ` Alan Willis
2002-11-11 21:32             ` Andrew Morton
2002-11-13  0:14               ` Denis Vlasenko
2002-11-12 20:07                 ` Alan Willis

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