Re: [interbench numbers] Re: interactive task starvation

Con Kolivas
2006-03-22T20:33:20Z

On Wednesday 22 March 2006 23:14, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I was asked to do some interbench runs, with various throttle settings,
> see below. I'll not attempt to interpret results, only present raw data
> for others to examine.
>
> Tested throttling patches version is V24, because while I was compiling
> 2.6.16-rc6-mm2 in preparation for comparison, I found I'd introduced an
> SMP buglet in V23. Something good came from the added testing whether
> the results are informative or not :)

Thanks!

I wonder why the results are affected even without any throttling settings but
just patched in? Specifically I'm talking about deadlines met with video
being sensitive to this. Were there any other config differences between the
tests? Changing HZ would invalidate the results for example. Comments?

Cheers,
Con