From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1767732AbXCJCxj (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Mar 2007 21:53:39 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1767733AbXCJCxj (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Mar 2007 21:53:39 -0500 Received: from mail30.syd.optusnet.com.au ([211.29.133.193]:33983 "EHLO mail30.syd.optusnet.com.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1767732AbXCJCxi (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Mar 2007 21:53:38 -0500 From: Con Kolivas To: Matt Mackall Subject: Re: 2.6.21-rc3-mm1 RSDL results Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 13:53:16 +1100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 Cc: linux-kernel , akpm@linux-foundation.org References: <20070309053931.GA10459@waste.org> <200703101320.23125.kernel@kolivas.org> <20070310022656.GQ10394@waste.org> In-Reply-To: <20070310022656.GQ10394@waste.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200703101353.17030.kernel@kolivas.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Saturday 10 March 2007 13:26, Matt Mackall wrote: > On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 01:20:22PM +1100, Con Kolivas wrote: > > Progress at last! And without any patches! Well those look very > > reasonable to me. Especially since -j5 is a worst case scenario. > > Well that's with a noyield patch and your sched_tick fix. > > > But would you say it's still _adequate_ with ccache considering you > > only have 1/6th cpu left for X? With and without ccache it's quite a > > different workload so they will behave differently. > > No, I don't think 1/6th is being left for X in the ccache case so I > think there's a bug lurking here. My memload, execload, and forkload > test cases did better even with X niced. > > To confirm, I've just run 15 instances of memload with unniced Xorg > and it performs better than make -j 5 with ccache. > > If I have some time tomorrow, I'll try to do a straight -mm1 to mm2 > comparison with different loads. Great, thanks very much for all that. I've found a few subtle bugs in the process and some that haven't made it to the list either. I'll respin a set of patches against -mm2 with the changes shortly. Thanks! -- -ck