From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
To: Anton Blanchard <anton@linuxcare.com.au>
Cc: torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: Only one memory zone for sparc64
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 12:16:54 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010316121654.C1771@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010315191352.D1598@linuxcare.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010315191352.D1598@linuxcare.com>; from anton@linuxcare.com.au on Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 07:13:52PM +1100
Hi,
On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 07:13:52PM +1100, Anton Blanchard wrote:
>
> On sparc64 we dont care about the different memory zones and iterating
> through them all over the place only serves to waste CPU. I suspect this
> would be the case with some other architectures but for the moment I
> have just enabled it for sparc64.
>
> With this patch I get close to a 1% improvement in dbench on the dual
> ultra60.
I'd be surprised if dbench was anything other than disk-bound on most
systems. On any of my machines, the standard error of a single dbench
run is *way* larger than 1%, and I'd expect to have to run the
benchmark a dozen times to get a confidence interval small enough to
detect a 1% performance change: are your runs repeatable enough to be
this sensitive to the effect of the allocator?
Cheers,
Stephen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-03-16 20:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-03-15 8:13 [PATCH]: Only one memory zone for sparc64 Anton Blanchard
2001-03-15 12:36 ` Rik van Riel
2001-03-16 12:16 ` Stephen C. Tweedie [this message]
2001-03-17 2:45 ` Anton Blanchard
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