Re: 2.6.21-rc3-mm1 RSDL results

Matt Mackall
2007-03-09T21:52:38Z

On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 08:19:18AM +1100, Con Kolivas wrote:
> On Saturday 10 March 2007 08:07, Con Kolivas wrote:
> > On Saturday 10 March 2007 07:46, Matt Mackall wrote:
> > > My suspicion is the problem lies in giving too much quanta to
> > > newly-started processes.
> >
> > Ah that's some nice detective work there. Mainline does some rather complex
> > accounting on sched_fork including (possibly) a whole timer tick which rsdl
> > does not do. make forks off continuously so what you say may well be
> > correct. I'll see if I can try to revert to the mainline behaviour in
> > sched_fork (which was obviously there for a reason).
>
> Wow! Thanks Matt. You've found a real bug too. This seems to fix the qemu
> misbehaviour and bitmap errors so far too! Now can you please try this to see
> if it fixes your problem?

Sorry, it's about the same. I now suspect an accounting glitch involving
pipe wake-ups.

5x memload: good
5x execload: good
5x forkload: good
5 parallel makes: mostly good
make -j 5: bad

So what's different between makes in parallel and make -j 5? Make's
job server uses pipe I/O to control how many jobs are running.

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