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From: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
To: Hrishikesh <hrishikesh.amur@gmail.com>
Cc: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [uml-devel] Dramatic drop in C3 state residency with NO_HZ patches
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 13:19:20 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071017171920.GA10388@c2.user-mode-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1f154f440710170916j4fdb857fw40c9b2fd2b66f63f@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 12:16:18PM -0400, Hrishikesh wrote:
> This is when I patch the UML kernel with the NO_HZ patches that you put up
> last month.. on 2.6.23-rc6-mm1. 

Hmmm, that's exactly the opposite of what I would expect.  A idle
non-NO_HZ UML should be waking up 100 times/sec, while I see much
longer sleeps with an idle NO_HZ UML, up to 2-3 seconds.

Can you strace both cases and see how often the NO_HZ UML is waking up
compared to the non-NO_HZ one?

				Jeff

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Work email - jdike at linux dot intel dot com

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-17 17:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-17  2:36 [uml-devel] Dramatic drop in C3 state residency with NO_HZ patches Hrishikesh
2007-10-17 15:55 ` Jeff Dike
2007-10-17 16:16   ` Hrishikesh
2007-10-17 17:19     ` Jeff Dike [this message]
2007-10-17 19:43       ` Hrishikesh
2007-10-17 20:45         ` Jeff Dike
2007-10-17 23:29           ` Hrishikesh
2007-10-18 20:04             ` Jeff Dike
2007-10-23 19:21               ` Hrishikesh
2007-10-23 21:35                 ` Jeff Dike
2007-10-23 23:53                   ` Hrishikesh
2007-10-18  8:06           ` Hrishikesh
2007-11-06 18:02         ` Jeff Dike

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