From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267445AbUHDVd3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Aug 2004 17:33:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267452AbUHDVao (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Aug 2004 17:30:44 -0400 Received: from mx2.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:17361 "EHLO mx2.elte.hu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267451AbUHDVaK (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Aug 2004 17:30:10 -0400 Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 23:31:13 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: "Martin J. Bligh" Cc: Andrew Morton , kernel@kolivas.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Rick Lindsley Subject: Re: 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 performance improvements (scheduler?) Message-ID: <20040804213113.GA29434@elte.hu> References: <20040804122414.4f8649df.akpm@osdl.org> <211490000.1091648060@flay> <20040804201019.GA25908@elte.hu> <216720000.1091651795@flay> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <216720000.1091651795@flay> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-ELTE-SpamVersion: MailScanner 4.31.6-itk1 (ELTE 1.2) SpamAssassin 2.63 ClamAV 0.73 X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-4.9, required 5.9, autolearn=not spam, BAYES_00 -4.90 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamScore: -4 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Martin J. Bligh wrote: > > Martin, could you try 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 with staircase-cpu-scheduler > > unapplied a re-run at least part of your tests? > > > > there are a number of NUMA improvements queued up on -mm, and it would > > be nice to know what effect these cause, and what effect the staircase > > scheduler has. > > Sure. I presume it's just the one patch: > > staircase-cpu-scheduler-268-rc2-mm1.patch > > which seemed to back out clean and is building now. Scream if that's > not all of it ... correct, that's the end of the scheduler patch-queue and it works fine if unapplied. (The schedstats patch i just sent applies cleanly to that base, in case you need one.) Ingo