Re: volanoMark regression with kernel 2.6.26-rc1

Zhang, Yanmin
2008-05-12T05:04:41Z

On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 10:22 +0530, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote:
> On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 11:33:20AM +0800, Zhang, Yanmin wrote:
> > To make the testing faster, I changed some parameters of volanoMark.
> > The result of 2.6.26-rc1(﻿CONFIG_CGROUP_SCHED=y) is about 2%~3% less than the one of
> > 2.6.25 (﻿CONFIG_USER_SCHED=y).
A quick update:
With 2.6.26-rc2 (﻿CONFIG_USER_SCHED=y), volanoMa﻿rk result on my 8-core stoakley
is about 10% worse than the one of 2.6.26-rc1.

>
> This for confirming my observation. It seems much better than the 50% regression
> reported earlier (with 2.6.26-rc1 and CONFIG_USER_SCHED).
>
> Ideally we should get same results with CONFIG_USER_SCHED also (in
> 2.6.26-rc1). That needs some work in load balance code. Till that is
> tackled, IMHO we can retain all the current code by either:
>
> 1. Disabling CONFIG_GROUP_SCHED (or better)
> 2. Enable CONFIG_GROUP_SCHED and CONFIG_CGROUP_SCHED
>
> Ingo/Peter, What's your opinion?
>