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From: Andy Isaacson <adi@hexapodia.org>
To: max@vortex.physik.uni-konstanz.de
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test4 shocking (HT) benchmarking (wrong logic./phys. HT CPU distinction?)
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 13:50:51 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030826135051.A16285@hexapodia.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200308261552.44541.max@vortex.physik.uni-konstanz.de>; from max@vortex.physik.uni-konstanz.de on Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 03:52:44PM +0200

On Tue, Aug 26, 2003, max@vortex.physik.uni-konstanz.de wrote:
> in our fine physics group we recently bought a DUAL XEON P4 2666MHz, 2GB, with
> hyper-threading support and I had the honour of making the thing work. In the 
> process I also did some benchmarking using two different kernels (stock 
> SuSE-8.2-Pro 2.4.20-64GB-SMP, and the latest and greatest vanilla 
> 2.6.0-test4). I benchmarked 
> 
> [2] running time of a multi-threaded numerical simulation making extensive use
> of FFTs, using the fftw.org library.

One thing to watch out for, with fftw:  I believe it will benchmark
various kernels, and decide which one to use, at run-time.  If the
scheduler fools it into thinking that a particular kernel is going to
perform better, it might do the wrong thing.

Does fftw have a switch to write a debug log?

("kernel" in this context means "the small section of code used to solve
the fft", not "the OS code running in privileged mode".)

-andy

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-08-26 18:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-08-26 13:52 2.6.0-test4 shocking (HT) benchmarking (wrong logic./phys. HT CPU distinction?) max
2003-08-26 16:36 ` Stan Bubrouski
2003-08-26 18:50 ` Andy Isaacson [this message]
2003-08-26 19:12   ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-08-27 13:40     ` Andrew Theurer
2003-08-26 19:20 ` bill davidsen

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