From: Martin Bligh <mbligh@google.com>
To: Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>,
npiggin@suse.de, mingo@elte.hu, rostedt@goodmis.org,
suresh.b.siddha@intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
torvalds@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [rfc][patch] sched: remove smpnice
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 15:36:14 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43E92EEE.7040706@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43E92B2B.2060105@bigpond.net.au>
> I think that the problems with excessive idling with the early versions
> of my modifications to Con's patch showed that the load balancing code
> is fairly sensitive to the average load per normal task not being
> approximately 1. My latest patches restore this state of affairs and
> kernbench testing indicates that the excessive idling has gone away (see
> Martin J Bligh's message of 2006/01/29 11:52 "Re: -mm seems
> significantly slower than mainline on kernbench thread").
I *think* the latest slowdown in -mm was due to some TSC side effects
from John's patches - see his other patch earlier today to fix (oops,
I forgot to reply to that ..)
So AFAICS, all issues with Peter's stuff were fixed.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-07 23:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-07 14:28 [rfc][patch] sched: remove smpnice Nick Piggin
2006-02-07 14:57 ` Con Kolivas
2006-02-07 15:05 ` Nick Piggin
2006-02-07 22:15 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-07 23:11 ` Con Kolivas
2006-02-07 23:36 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-08 3:28 ` Nick Piggin
2006-02-08 14:56 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-02-10 7:01 ` Siddha, Suresh B
2006-02-10 7:17 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-10 7:23 ` Con Kolivas
2006-02-10 9:06 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-02-11 1:27 ` Peter Williams
2006-02-11 2:00 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-12 1:13 ` Peter Williams
2006-02-12 23:10 ` Peter Williams
2006-02-13 1:06 ` Peter Williams
2006-02-14 0:37 ` Peter Williams
2006-02-14 8:53 ` Siddha, Suresh B
2006-02-11 3:36 ` Peter Williams
2006-02-11 4:04 ` Peter Williams
2006-02-14 9:07 ` Siddha, Suresh B
2006-02-14 22:40 ` Peter Williams
2006-02-14 23:44 ` Paul Jackson
2006-02-15 0:09 ` Peter Williams
2006-02-15 1:00 ` Paul Jackson
2006-02-15 7:07 ` Siddha, Suresh B
2006-02-15 22:36 ` Peter Williams
2006-02-15 23:29 ` Peter Williams
2006-02-13 14:12 ` Con Kolivas
2006-02-07 23:20 ` Peter Williams
2006-02-07 23:29 ` Con Kolivas
2006-02-07 23:36 ` Martin Bligh [this message]
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