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From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
	"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>,
	linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: pipe performance regression on ia64
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 05:11:18 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <16877.60406.192245.106565@napali.hpl.hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41ED9D06.1070301@yahoo.com.au>

>>>>> On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 10:34:30 +1100, Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> said:

  Nick> David I remember you reporting a pipe bandwidth regression,
  Nick> and I had a patch for it, but that hurt other workloads, so I
  Nick> don't think we ever really got anywhere. I've recently begun
  Nick> having another look at the multiprocessor balancer, so
  Nick> hopefully I can get a bit further with it this time.

While it may be worthwhile to improve the scheduler, it's clear that
there isn't going to be a trivial "fix" for this issue, especially
since it's not even clear that anything is really broken.  Independent
of the scheduler work, it would be very useful to have a pipe
benchmark which at least made the dependencies on the scheduler
obvious.  So I think improving the scheduler and improving the LMbench
pipe benchmark are entirely complementary.

	--david


  reply	other threads:[~2005-01-19  5:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-18 17:41 pipe performance regression on ia64 Luck, Tony
2005-01-18 18:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-01-18 18:31   ` David Mosberger
2005-01-18 20:17     ` Linus Torvalds
2005-01-19  3:05       ` [Lmbench-users] " Larry McVoy
2005-01-19  3:20         ` Linus Torvalds
2005-01-19  3:24         ` Zou, Nanhai
2005-01-19  6:35         ` Luck, Tony
2005-01-19  9:23         ` Staelin, Carl
2005-01-19 16:40       ` Larry McVoy
2005-01-18 23:34   ` Nick Piggin
2005-01-19  5:11     ` David Mosberger [this message]
2005-01-19 12:43       ` Nick Piggin
2005-01-19 17:31         ` David Mosberger
2005-01-19 12:52   ` Ingo Molnar

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