Re: 2.5.38 vs. 2.5.38-mm1 dbench 512 oprofiles

Dipankar Sarma
2002-09-23T09:00:13Z

On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 06:02:15AM +0000, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 10:36:00PM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> sorry real 2.5.38-mm1 profile:
> c01053dc 884615995 93.5551 poll_idle
> c0114c28 38573436 4.07944 load_balance

Any idea why scheduler time shoot up with mm1 ? The RCU core
patch (rcu_ltimer) in mm1 doesn't force any context switches, so it
can't be that.

Thanks
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