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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: "Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: sched_yield: delete sysctl_sched_compat_yield
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 11:05:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071203100554.GA30050@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1196674170.25646.121.camel@ymzhang>


* Zhang, Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com> wrote:

> Although no source codes of volanoMark, I suspect it calls 
> Thread.sched. volanoMark is a kind of chatroom benchmark. When a 
> client sends out a message, server will send the message to all 
> clients. I suspect the client calls Thread.yield after sending out a 
> couple of messages.

yeah, so far only volanomark seems to be affected by this, and if it 
indeed calls Thread.yield artificially it's a pretty stupid benchmark 
and it's not the fault of the JDK. If we had the source to volanomark we 
could fix this easily.

> 2 JVM all have regression if sched_compat_yield=0.
> 
> I ran some testing, such like iozone/specjbb/tbench/dbench/sysbench, 
> and didn't see regression.

which JVM was utilized by the specjbb (Java Business Benchmark) tests?

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-03 10:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-27  9:33 sched_yield: delete sysctl_sched_compat_yield Zhang, Yanmin
2007-11-27 11:17 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-11-27 22:57 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-11-30  2:46   ` Nick Piggin
2007-11-30  2:51     ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-11-30  3:02       ` Nick Piggin
2007-11-30  3:15     ` Zhang, Yanmin
2007-11-30  3:29       ` Nick Piggin
2007-11-30  4:32         ` Zhang, Yanmin
2007-11-30 10:08         ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-03  4:27           ` Nick Piggin
2007-12-03  8:45             ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-03  9:17               ` Nick Piggin
2007-12-03  9:35                 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2007-12-03  9:57                 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-03 10:15                   ` Nick Piggin
2007-12-03 10:33                     ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-03 11:02                       ` Nick Piggin
2007-12-03 11:37                         ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-03 17:04                           ` David Schwartz
2007-12-03 17:37                             ` Chris Friesen
2007-12-03 19:12                               ` David Schwartz
2007-12-03 19:56                                 ` Chris Friesen
2007-12-03 21:39                                   ` Mark Lord
2007-12-03 21:48                                     ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-03 21:57                                       ` Mark Lord
2007-12-03 22:05                                         ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-03 22:18                                           ` Mark Lord
2007-12-03 22:33                                             ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-04  0:18                                               ` Nick Piggin
2007-12-04  0:30                                           ` David Schwartz
2007-12-04  2:09                                             ` Nick Piggin
2007-12-04  1:02                           ` Nick Piggin
2007-12-03  9:41               ` Zhang, Yanmin
2007-12-03 10:17                 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-03  9:29           ` Zhang, Yanmin
2007-12-03 10:05             ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2007-12-04  6:40               ` Zhang, Yanmin

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