Re: [ck] Re: SD still better than CFS for 3d ?(was Re: 2.6.23-rc1)

Miguel Figueiredo
2007-07-30T21:34:47Z

Em Segunda, 30 de Julho de 2007 22:24, Kenneth Prugh escreveu:
> Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > * Kenneth Prugh <ken69267@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >>> <large snip>
> >>
> >> Hello, I have a gaming rig and would love to help benchmark with my
> >> copy of UT2004(E6600 Core2 and a 7950GTO card). Or if you have
> >> anything else that would better serve as a benchmark I could grab it
> >> and try.
> >>
> >> The only problem is I don't know what 2 kernels I should be using to
> >> test the schedulers. I assume 2.6.23-rc1 for CFS, but what about SD?
> >
> > .22-ck1 includes it, so that should be fine:
> >
> > http://ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0707.1/0318.html
> >
> > Ingo
>
> Alright, Just got done with some testing of UT2004 between 2.6.23-rc1
> CFS and 2.6.22-ck1 SD. This series of tests was run by spawning in a map
> while not moving at all and always facing the same direction, while
> slowing increasing the number of loops.
>
> CFS generally seemed a lot smoother as the load increased, while SD
> broke down to a highly unstable fps count that fluctuated massively
> around the third loop. Seems like I will stick to CFS for gaming now.
>
> Below you will find the results of my test with the average number of FPS.
>
> CFS | SD
> UT2004 + 0 loops | 200 FPS UT2004 + 0 loops | 190 FPS
> UT2004 + 1 loops | 195 FPS UT2004 + 1 loops | 190 FPS
> UT2004 + 2 loops | 190 FPS UT2004 + 2 loops | 190 FPS
> UT2004 + 3 loops | 189 FPS UT2004 + 3 loops | 136 FPS
> UT2004 + 4 loops | 150 FPS UT2004 + 4 loops | 137 FPS
> UT2004 + 5 loops | 145 FPS UT2004 + 5 loops | 136 FPS
> UT2004 + 6 loops | 145 FPS UT2004 + 6 loops | 105 FPS
> UT2004 + 7 loops | 118 FPS UT2004 + 7 loops | 104 FPS
> UT2004 + 8 loops | 97 FPS UT2004 + 8 loops | 104 FPS
> UT2004 + 9 loops | 94 FPS UT2004 + 9 loops | 89 FPS
> UT2004 + 10 loops | 92 FPS UT2004 + 10 loops | 91 FPS

can you apply the patch [1] that changes the behaviour of sched_yield on SD
and report the results?

SD should scale a lot better after the patch.

1 - http://bhhdoa.org.au/pipermail/ck/2007-July/008297.html

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Com os melhores cumprimentos/Best regards,

Miguel Figueiredo