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From: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
To: roland <for_spam@gmx.de>
Cc: Laurent Vivier <LaurentVivier@wanadoo.fr>,
	user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [uml-devel] [PATCH] host context switch reduction
Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 13:59:04 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040518175904.GB29114@ccure.user-mode-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <03ff01c43c5d$7db6e5e0$2000000a@schlepptopp>

On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 12:22:45AM +0200, roland wrote:
> the question is:
> is the "real world" performance benefit, uml get`s from this patch worth taking your time and is it implemented in a way, so that
> uml maintainers are happy with that ?

The patch seems reasonable to me.  I'd be happiest with Laurent pushing this
into mainline himself.

> i cannot really estimate, what performance benefits your patch brings to uml in detail, but what i have seen so far, this seems
> quite worth doing the work.  reducing context switches by 1/3 is a LOT, imho - and reducing the execution time of the getpid-loop to
> nearly the half is quite impressive.

Yeah, but no real workloads do while(1) getpid();

The kernel build improvement is obviously smaller, but still worth having.

> are there any "con`s" that argue for that work _NOT_ being done ?

No.  But testing, and happy reports to the appropriate mailing lists would
help.

				Jeff


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  reply	other threads:[~2004-05-18 17:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-29  4:35 [uml-devel] [PATCH] host context switch reduction Jeff Dike
2004-02-29 16:48 ` BlaisorBlade
2004-03-15 11:42 ` Sven 'Darkman' Michels
2004-03-15 19:13   ` Jeff Dike
2004-05-17 20:08 ` roland
2004-05-17 22:00   ` Laurent Vivier
2004-05-17 22:22     ` roland
2004-05-18 17:59       ` Jeff Dike [this message]
2004-05-19 17:27         ` Laurent Vivier
2004-05-19 18:01           ` roland
2004-05-19 18:17             ` Laurent Vivier
2004-05-19 19:39               ` roland
2004-05-19 19:49                 ` Laurent Vivier
2004-05-20  2:30                   ` roland
2004-05-20 12:49                     ` Laurent Vivier
2004-05-23  0:42                       ` [uml-devel] [PATCH] commandline switch for sysemu patch roland
2004-05-23 13:31                       ` [uml-devel] [PATCH] host context switch reduction roland
2004-05-19 23:54               ` Jeff Dike
2004-05-20  1:01               ` roland
2004-05-20 14:12                 ` Henrik Nordstrom
2004-05-20 15:27                   ` roland
2004-05-20 15:35                     ` Henrik Nordstrom
2004-05-19 22:40           ` Nuno Silva
2004-05-20 18:28           ` roland
2004-05-20 18:47             ` Henrik Nordstrom
2004-05-27  6:16           ` Christopher S. Aker
2004-05-27  8:22             ` Laurent Vivier
2004-05-27  9:25               ` Christopher S. Aker
2004-05-27 11:50                 ` Laurent Vivier
2004-05-28  4:53                   ` [uml-devel] [PATCH] host context switch reduction Benchmarks Christopher S. Aker
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-05-20  2:34 [uml-devel] [PATCH] host context switch reduction roland

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