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From: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
To: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
Cc: ck@vds.kolivas.org, Michael Gerdau <mgd@technosis.de>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>,
	Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@gmail.com>,
	Al Boldi <a1426z@gawab.com>, Bill Huey <billh@gnuppy.monkey.org>,
	Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>,
	linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>,
	Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au>,
	Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Subject: Re: [ck] Re: [ANNOUNCE] Staircase Deadline cpu scheduler version 0.45
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 15:07:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070422130725.GA16601@1wt.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200704222218.32754.kernel@kolivas.org>

On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 10:18:32PM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote:
> On Sunday 22 April 2007 21:42, Con Kolivas wrote:
> 
> Willy I'm still investigating the idle time and fluctuating load as a separate 
> issue.

OK.

> Is it possible the multiple ocbench processes are naturally 
> synchronising and desynchronising and choosing to sleep and/or run at the 
> same time?

I don't think so. They're independant processes, and I insist on reducing
their X work in order to ensure they don't get perturbated by external
factor. Their work consist in looping 250 ms and waiting 750 ms, then
displaying a new progress line.

> I can remove the idle time entirely by running ocbench at nice 19 
> which means they are all forced to run at basically the same time by the 
> scheduler.

It may indicate some special handling of nice ?

> Anyway the more important part is... Can you test this patch please? Dump
> all the other patches I sent you post 045. Michael, if you could test too
> please?

OK, I will restart from fresh 0.45 and try again.

Regards,
Willy


  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-22 13:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-22  4:41 [ANNOUNCE] Staircase Deadline cpu scheduler version 0.45 Con Kolivas
2007-04-22  7:00 ` Willy Tarreau
2007-04-22  7:27   ` Con Kolivas
2007-04-22  7:31     ` Con Kolivas
2007-04-22  8:06       ` Willy Tarreau
2007-04-22  8:53         ` Con Kolivas
2007-04-22  9:14           ` Willy Tarreau
2007-04-22  9:53             ` Con Kolivas
2007-04-22 11:42             ` Con Kolivas
2007-04-22 12:18               ` [ck] " Con Kolivas
2007-04-22 13:07                 ` Willy Tarreau [this message]
2007-04-22 13:27                   ` Con Kolivas
2007-04-22 14:22                 ` Willy Tarreau
2007-04-22 14:35                   ` Con Kolivas
2007-04-23  7:02                     ` Con Kolivas
2007-04-22 14:27                 ` Michael Gerdau
2007-04-22 14:37                   ` Con Kolivas
2007-04-22  8:02 ` [ck] " Michael Gerdau
2007-04-22 11:09   ` Con Kolivas

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