From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261540AbVFKWUe (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Jun 2005 18:20:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261684AbVFKWUc (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Jun 2005 18:20:32 -0400 Received: from mail04.syd.optusnet.com.au ([211.29.132.185]:46467 "EHLO mail04.syd.optusnet.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261540AbVFKWU0 (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Jun 2005 18:20:26 -0400 From: Con Kolivas To: "Martin J. Bligh" Subject: Re: 2.6.12-rc6-mm1 Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 08:20:05 +1000 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar , Andrew Morton , Christoph Lameter , Nick Piggin References: <20050607170853.3f81007a.akpm@osdl.org> <200506111522.30765.kernel@kolivas.org> <672740000.1118520822@[10.10.2.4]> In-Reply-To: <672740000.1118520822@[10.10.2.4]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200506120820.05627.kernel@kolivas.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 12 Jun 2005 06:13, Martin J. Bligh wrote: > --Con Kolivas wrote (on Saturday, June 11, 2005 > > Great thanks. Here are rolled up all the reconsidered changes that apply > > directly to 2.6.12-rc6-mm1 -purely for testing purposes-. I'd be very > > grateful to see how this performed; it has been boot and stress tested at > > this end. If it shows detriment I'll have to make the smp nice changes > > more complex. > > It's much better ... but still a degredation - see point p5181 on: > > http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mbligh/abat/perf/kernbench.mo >e.png > > Only really seems to hurt the NUMA box (the x440 one ... elm3b67 ... is > still trying to find it's ass with both hands). I'm not necessarily saying > it's a problem ... not sure what the benefits of the patch are, but it's a > data point, at least ? Thanks a lot! Just checking the numbering of the test runs with you. This is the blue line order as plotted on the graph: 5181 is with this patch 4947 is mm1? 5150 is mm1 with the 4 patches backed out 5081 is mm1 with the 4 patches backed out and Hz changed to 100? 5169 is ? Cheers, Con