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From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
To: Juergen Doelle <jdoelle@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Mark Hemment <markhe@veritas.com>,
	lse-tech@lists.sourceforge.net, Steve Fox <stevefx@us.ibm.com>,
	Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Align VM locks, new spinlock patch
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 15:02:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010924150259.A13817@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3BAB3D65.2FDD170C@de.ibm.com>
In-Reply-To: <3BAB3D65.2FDD170C@de.ibm.com>; from jdoelle@de.ibm.com on Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 03:15:17PM +0200

Hi,

On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 03:15:17PM +0200, Juergen Doelle wrote:

>     2.4.10  2.4.10 +        improvement 
>             spinlock patch  by patch    
> 
>  U  103.77  102.14          - 1.6%
>  1   96.82   96.77          - 0.1%
>  2  155.32  155.62            0.2%
>  4  209.45  222.11            6.0%
>  8  208.06  234.82           12.9%
> 
> The improvement is less than in previous posted results, because the 
> pagemap_lru_lock and the lru_list_lock are already cacheline aligned
> in 2.4.10 (2.4.9).

Do you have CPU utilisation differences for these cases, as well as
pure IO bandwidth differences?  It would be interesting to see just
how much the IO code's internal latency impacts on the final dbench
numbers.

--Stephen

  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-09-24 14:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-09-21 13:15 [PATCH] Align VM locks, new spinlock patch Juergen Doelle
2001-09-22 23:07 ` Andrew Morton
2001-09-24 14:02 ` Stephen C. Tweedie [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-09-26 15:15 Juergen Doelle
2001-09-26 15:15 Juergen Doelle

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