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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: "Alex Nixon (Intern)" <Alex.Nixon@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@eu.citrix.com>
Subject: RE: Large increase in context switch rate
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:21:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1216308103.5232.96.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0E902970173AF84089673FA54B7FE78A32906B@lonpexch01.citrite.net>

On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 16:14 +0100, Alex Nixon (Intern) wrote:
> Yeah I've checked - the number of context switches seems to be around
> 60k regardless of whether CONFIG_PARAVIRT is switched on, and regardless
> of whether it's running in domu or native (-j4 on dual core)

I'm seeing:

procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- -----cpu------
 r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in   cs us sy id wa st

 4  0      0 1148916 120340 472040    0    0     0  1912 2225 3662 78 22  0  0  0
 4  0      0 1130192 120556 489844    0    0     0  1974 2220 3461 77 22  0  0  0

doing make -j4

This is on x86_64 SMP PREEMPT HZ=1000 !PARAVIRT 
(Linus' tree as of somewhere earlier today)




  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-17 15:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-16 18:54 Large increase in context switch rate Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-07-17  9:17 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-07-17 15:02   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-07-17 15:14     ` Alex Nixon (Intern)
2008-07-17 15:21       ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2008-07-17 15:45       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-07-17 16:04         ` Alex Nixon (Intern)
2008-07-17 16:11           ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-07-17 21:43             ` Andi Kleen
2008-07-18 17:00               ` Alex Nixon (Intern)
2008-07-23  9:34               ` Alex Nixon (Intern)
2008-07-23 13:54                 ` Andi Kleen
2008-07-24  1:26                 ` Nick Piggin
2008-07-25 11:31                   ` Alex Nixon
2008-07-25 11:39                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-07-25 14:54                     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge

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