RE: [Linux-ia64] benchmarking results

["Adriano Galano" <adriano@satec.es>]

Hi David and all:

>
> >>>>> On Wed, 30 Apr 2003 12:54:12 +0200, "Adriano Galano"
> <adriano@satec.es> said:
>
>   Adriano> Hello: Someone could be provide SMP benchmarking results
>   Adriano> for 2-way to 8-way Itanium 2 systems?
>
> A lot of performance information for 2-4 way is available at:
>
>   http://www.hp.com/products1/itanium/performance/index.html
>
> Note especially the links near the bottom of the pages: that's
> where all the background & details are.
>
> Also note that the results are for McKinley (as of July-September last
> year, I think), so they don't cover Madison (aka Itanium 2 6M) or
> larger (beyond 4-way) HP systems yets.
>

We need to find some reference of SMP scalability on Linux scheduler. For 1,
2, 4 and 8 processor. How "lineal" is this scalability? Does Linux perform
well en 4 or 8 Itanium 2 architecture? Somebody have experience of Linux
scalability for more than 4 Itanium 2 (or Madison) processors?

Regards,

-Adriano


> 	--david