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From: cliff white <cliffw@osdl.org>
To: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Nick's scheduler v17
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 13:17:31 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031024131731.29ae599a.cliffw@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F996B10.4080307@cyberone.com.au>

On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 04:10:24 +1000
Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au> wrote:

> Hi,
> http://www.kerneltrap.org/~npiggin/v17/
> 
> Still working on SMP and NUMA. Some (maybe) interesting things I put in are
> - Sequential CPU balancing so you don't get a big storm of balances 
> every 1/4s.
> - Balancing is trying to err more on the side of caution, I have to start
>   analysing it more thoroughly though.
> - Attacked the NUMA balancing code. There should now be less buslocked ops /
>   cache pingpongs in some fastpaths. Volanomark likes it, more realistic 
> loads
>   won't improve so much http://www.kerneltrap.org/~npiggin/v17/volano.png
>   This improvement is NUMA only.
> 
> I haven't had time to reproduce Cliff's serious reaim performance 
> dropoffs so
> they're probably still there. I couldn't reproduce Martin's kernbench 
> dropoff,
> but the 16-way I'm using only has 512K cache which might not show it up.
> 
Okay, i put both v17 patches in the OSDL Patch Lifecycle Manager 
( http://www.osdl.org/plm-cgi/plm/ ) 
sched-v17 is PLM #2251
sched-nopolicy-v17 is PLM #2252

Results asap.
cliffw

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  reply	other threads:[~2003-10-24 20:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-24 18:10 Nick's scheduler v17 Nick Piggin
2003-10-24 20:17 ` cliff white [this message]
2003-10-24 21:49 ` Andrew Theurer
2003-10-25  1:12   ` Nick Piggin
2003-10-26  6:43     ` Nick Piggin
2003-10-27 17:02       ` Andrew Theurer
2003-10-27 23:13         ` Nick Piggin

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