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From: Michael Gerdau <mgd@technosis.de>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>,
	Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@gmail.com>,
	Juliusz Chroboczek <jch@pps.jussieu.fr>,
	Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>,
	Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au>,
	ck list <ck@vds.kolivas.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>, Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [REPORT] cfs-v5 vs sd-0.46
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:06:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200704241106.41912.mgd@technosis.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070424085105.GA12329@elte.hu>

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> oh, you are writing the number-cruncher?

Yep.

> In general the 'best'  
> performance metrics for scheduler validation are the ones where you have 
> immediate feedback: i.e. some ops/sec (or ops per minute) value in some 
> readily accessible place, or some "milliseconds-per-100,000 ops" type of 
> metric - whichever lends itself better to the workload at hand.

I'll have to see whether that works out. I don't have an easily
available ops/sec but I guess I could create something similar.

> If you  
> measure time then the best is to use long long and nanoseconds and the 
> monotonic clocksource:

[snip]
Thanks, I will implement that, for Linux anyway.

> Plus an absolute metric of "the whole workload took X.Y seconds" is 
> useful too.

That's the easiest to come by and is already available.

Best,
Michael
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  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-24  9:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-24  7:37 [REPORT] cfs-v5 vs sd-0.46 Michael Gerdau
2007-04-24  7:53 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-04-24  8:16   ` Michael Gerdau
2007-04-24  8:23     ` Ingo Molnar
2007-04-24  8:41       ` Michael Gerdau
2007-04-24  8:51         ` Ingo Molnar
2007-04-24  9:06           ` Michael Gerdau [this message]
2007-04-26  1:06 ` [ck] " Con Kolivas
2007-04-26  6:10   ` Michael Gerdau

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