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From: Paolo Ornati <ornati@fastwebnet.it>
To: Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Chris Han <xiphux@gmail.com>, Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>,
	William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>,
	Jake Moilanen <moilanen@austin.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE][RFC] PlugSched-6.2 for  2.6.16-rc1 and 2.6.16-rc1-mm1
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 09:11:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060126091129.53de58fa@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43D82161.6000809@bigpond.net.au>

On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:09:53 +1100
Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au> wrote:

> I know that I've said this before but I've found the problem. 
> Embarrassingly, it was a basic book keeping error (recently introduced 
> and equivalent to getting nr_running wrong for each CPU) in the 
> gathering of the statistics that I use. :-(
> 
> The attached patch (applied on top of the PlugSched patch) should fix 
> things.  Could you test it please?

Ok, this one make a difference:

(transcode)

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
 5774 paolo     34   0  116m  18m 2432 R 86.2  3.7   0:11.65 transcode
 5788 paolo     32   0 51000 4472 1872 S  7.5  0.9   0:01.13 tcdecode
 5797 paolo     29   0  4948 1468  372 D  3.2  0.3   0:00.30 dd
 5781 paolo     33   0 19844 1092  880 S  1.0  0.2   0:00.10 tcdemux
 5783 paolo     31   0 47964 2496 1956 S  0.7  0.5   0:00.08 tcdecode
 5786 paolo     34   0 19840 1088  880 R  0.5  0.2   0:00.06 tcdemux

(sched_fooler)

 PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
 5804 paolo     34   0  2396  292  228 R 35.7  0.1   0:12.84 a.out
 5803 paolo     34   0  2392  288  228 R 30.5  0.1   0:11.49 a.out
 5805 paolo     34   0  2392  288  228 R 30.2  0.1   0:10.70 a.out
 5815 paolo     29   0  4948 1468  372 D  3.7  0.3   0:00.29 dd
 5458 paolo     28   0 86656  21m  15m S  0.2  4.4   0:02.18 konsole

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
 5804 paolo     34   0  2396  292  228 R 36.5  0.1   0:38.19 a.out
 5803 paolo     34   0  2392  288  228 R 30.5  0.1   0:34.27 a.out
 5805 paolo     34   0  2392  288  228 R 29.2  0.1   0:32.39 a.out
 5829 paolo     34   0  4952 1472  372 R  3.2  0.3   0:00.35 dd

DD_TEST + sched_fooler: 512 MB --- ~20s instead of 16.6s

This is a clear improvement... however I wonder why DD priority
fluctuate going up even to 34 (the range is something like 29 <--->
34).

-- 
	Paolo Ornati
	Linux 2.6.16-rc1-plugsched on x86_64

  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-26  8:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-19 21:45 [ANNOUNCE][RFC] PlugSched-6.2 for 2.6.16-rc1 and 2.6.16-rc1-mm1 Peter Williams
2006-01-21  6:48 ` Peter Williams
2006-01-21 10:46 ` Paolo Ornati
2006-01-21 23:06   ` Peter Williams
2006-01-22 22:47     ` Peter Williams
2006-01-23  0:49       ` Peter Williams
2006-01-23 20:21         ` Paolo Ornati
2006-01-24  0:00           ` Peter Williams
2006-01-26  1:09           ` Peter Williams
2006-01-26  8:11             ` Paolo Ornati [this message]
2006-01-26 22:34               ` Peter Williams
2006-01-28 23:44                 ` Peter Williams
2006-01-31 17:44                   ` Paolo Ornati
2006-01-23 20:09     ` Paolo Ornati
2006-01-23 20:25       ` Lee Revell
2006-01-23 20:52         ` Paolo Ornati
2006-01-23 20:59           ` Lee Revell
2006-01-23 21:10             ` Paolo Ornati
2006-01-23 21:11               ` Lee Revell
2006-01-23 23:32       ` Peter Williams

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