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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Cc: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-ia64 <linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [sched, patch] better wake-balancing, #2
Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 08:29:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050731062927.GA472@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200507301929_MC3-1-A601-D4C2@compuserve.com>


* Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 at 17:02:07 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> > do wakeup-balancing only if the wakeup-CPU is idle.
> >
> > this prevents excessive wakeup-balancing while the system is highly
> > loaded, but helps spread out the workload on partly idle systems.
> 
> I tested this with Volanomark on dual-processor PII Xeon -- the 
> results were very bad:

which patch have you tested? The mail you replied to above is for patch
#2, while on SMT/HT boxes it's patch #3 that is the correct approach.

furthermore, which base kernel have you applied the patch to? Best would 
be to test the following kernels:

 2.6.13-rc4 + sched-rollup
 2.6.13-rc4 + sched-rollup + better-wake-balance-#3

the sched-rollup and the latest better-wake-balance patches can be found 
at:

  http://redhat.com/~mingo/scheduler-patches/

(sched-rollup is the current scheduler patch-queue in -mm. And if you 
have time, it would also be nice to have a 2.6.13-rc4 baseline for 
VolanoMark, and perhaps a 2.6.12 measurement too, so that we can see how 
things changed.)

	Ingo

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-07-31  6:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-07-30 23:26 [sched, patch] better wake-balancing, #2 Chuck Ebbert
2005-07-31  4:35 ` Con Kolivas
2005-07-31  6:29 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-07-31 13:35 Chuck Ebbert
2005-07-29  2:01 Delete scheduler SD_WAKE_AFFINE and SD_WAKE_BALANCE flags Nick Piggin
2005-07-29  6:27 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2005-07-29 11:48   ` [patch] remove wake-balancing Ingo Molnar
2005-07-29 14:13     ` [sched, patch] better wake-balancing Ingo Molnar
2005-07-29 15:02       ` [sched, patch] better wake-balancing, #2 Ingo Molnar

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