Re: 2.6.9-rc1-mm1

Rafael J. Wysocki
2004-08-27T20:52:40Z

On Friday 27 of August 2004 02:58, Rick Lindsley wrote:
> Rick's schedstats stuff had some ways to measure latency that seemed to
> work quite nicely. Hard to simulate exactly mozilla, email, etc, but
> probably close enough to be far more use than "ooh, it feels faster".
>
> He did a whole paper at OLS ... Rick ... pointer?
>
> http://www.finux.org/Reprints/Reprint-Lindsley-OLS2004.pdf
>
> There are patches available for schedstats, although I haven't pulled
> together 2.6.9-rc1 yet. Shouldn't take me but fifteen minutes, I think.
>
> Rafael, what baseline release are you comparing to? I should be able
> to provide some tools to measure the effect on updatedb directly for
> both 2.6.9-rc1 and your baseline (so long as it's 2.6-based)

2.6.8.1, for example. I'd like to compate it with the 2.6.9-rc1-mm1, which
contains the Nick's scheduler (2.6.9-rc1 has the same scheduler as 2.6.8.1,
AFAIK).

Regards,
RJW

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