From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264893AbTLKLnh (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Dec 2003 06:43:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264894AbTLKLng (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Dec 2003 06:43:36 -0500 Received: from holomorphy.com ([199.26.172.102]:16869 "EHLO holomorphy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264893AbTLKLnf (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Dec 2003 06:43:35 -0500 Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 03:40:18 -0800 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Rhino Cc: Nick Piggin , linux-kernel , Anton Blanchard , Ingo Molnar , Rusty Russell , "Martin J. Bligh" , "Nakajima, Jun" , Mark Wong Subject: Re: [CFT][RFC] HT scheduler Message-ID: <20031211114018.GB8039@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Rhino , Nick Piggin , linux-kernel , Anton Blanchard , Ingo Molnar , Rusty Russell , "Martin J. Bligh" , "Nakajima, Jun" , Mark Wong References: <3FD3FD52.7020001@cyberone.com.au> <20031208155904.GF19412@krispykreme> <3FD50456.3050003@cyberone.com.au> <20031209001412.GG19412@krispykreme> <3FD7F1B9.5080100@cyberone.com.au> <3FD81BA4.8070602@cyberone.com.au> <20031211060120.4769a0e8.rhino9@terra.com.br> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031211060120.4769a0e8.rhino9@terra.com.br> Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 18:24:20 +1100 Nick Piggin wrote: >> The "average" plot for w26 I think is a little misleading because >> it got an unlucky result on the second last point making it look >> like its has a downward curve. It is usually more linear with a >> sharp downward spike at 150 rooms like the "maximum" plot. >> Don't ask me why it runs out of steam at 150 rooms. hackbench does >> something similar. I think it might be due to some resource running >> short, or a scalability problem somewhere else. On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 06:01:20AM -0400, Rhino wrote: > i didn't had the time to apply the patches (w26 and C1 from ingo ) > on a vanilla t11, but i merged them with the wli-2,btw this one has > really put my box on steroids ;) . > none of them finished a hackbench 320 run, the OOM killed all of my > agetty's logging me out. the box is a 1way p4(HT) 1gb of ram > and no swap heh. It might help to check how many processes and/or threads are involved. I've got process scalability stuff in there (I'm not sure how to read your comments though they seem encouraging). -- wli