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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	kernel@kolivas.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Rick Lindsley <ricklind@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 performance improvements (scheduler?)
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 22:10:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040804201019.GA25908@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <211490000.1091648060@flay>


* Martin J. Bligh <mbligh@aracnet.com> wrote:

> >>  SDET 16  (see disclaimer)
> >>                             Throughput    Std. Dev
> >>                      2.6.7       100.0%         0.3%
> >>                  2.6.8-rc2        99.5%         0.3%
> >>              2.6.8-rc2-mm2       118.5%         0.6%
> > 
> > hum, interesting.  Can Con's changes affect the inter-node and inter-cpu
> > balancing decisions, or is this all due to caching effects, reduced context
> > switching etc?

Martin, could you try 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 with staircase-cpu-scheduler 
unapplied a re-run at least part of your tests?

there are a number of NUMA improvements queued up on -mm, and it would
be nice to know what effect these cause, and what effect the staircase
scheduler has.

	Ingo

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-08-04 20:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-04 15:10 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 performance improvements (scheduler?) Martin J. Bligh
2004-08-04 15:12 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-08-04 19:24   ` Andrew Morton
2004-08-04 19:34     ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-08-04 19:50       ` Andrew Morton
2004-08-04 20:07         ` Rick Lindsley
2004-08-04 20:10       ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2004-08-04 20:36         ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-08-04 21:31           ` Ingo Molnar
2004-08-04 23:34             ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-08-04 21:26       ` 2.6.8-rc2-mm2, schedstat-2.6.8-rc2-mm2-A4.patch Ingo Molnar
2004-08-04 21:34         ` Sam Ravnborg
2004-08-04 21:46           ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-08-04 22:13           ` Ingo Molnar
2004-08-04 22:10         ` Rick Lindsley
     [not found]           ` <20040805143249.GA23967@elte.hu>
2004-08-05 18:36             ` Andrew Morton
2004-08-05 18:59               ` Rick Lindsley
2004-08-04 23:44     ` 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 performance improvements (scheduler?) Peter Williams
2004-08-04 23:59       ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-08-05  5:20         ` Rick Lindsley
2004-08-05 10:45           ` Ingo Molnar
     [not found] <200408092240.05287.habanero@us.ibm.com>
2004-08-10  4:08 ` Andrew Theurer
2004-08-10  4:37   ` Con Kolivas
2004-08-10 15:05     ` Andrew Theurer
2004-08-10 20:57       ` Con Kolivas
2004-08-10  7:40   ` Rick Lindsley
2004-08-10 15:19     ` Andrew Theurer

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