From: J Sloan <jjs@lexus.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
Cc: Linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Testing the effects of the low latency patch
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 17:14:45 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C50B185.40006@lexus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3C50AC22.7090203@lexus.com> <3C50AEE1.2300BB05@zip.com.au>
Andrew Morton wrote:
>J Sloan wrote:
>
>>I had earlier posted reports about the low latency patch in terms
>>that are too subjective - e.g. saying that "quake 3 arena feels much
>>smoother and I frag a lot more" isn't the kind of hard statistical
>>evidence demanded by some. I have attempted to quanitify the latency
>>differences in one of the workloads where I see and feel a difference.
>>
>
>mm. Numbers. Nice.
>
>>2.4.18-pre6+tux+nfs-fixes
>>-------------
>>...
>>7.6 1
>>7.8 1
>>21.1 1
>>
>
>This is the stock kernel. In twenty minutes you suffered
>precisely *one* scheduling overrun which is perceptible
>by a human. The rest are much shorter than your monitor's
>refresh interval. Interesting, yes?
>
Yes, the stock kernel is much improved from
say 6 months ago. I will take a look at the
kernel that shipped with my distro just for
giggles as well...
>>
>>The dbench results:
>>
>>2.4.18-pre6+tux+nfs-fixes
>>---------------------------------
>>...
>>Throughput 48.9432 MB/sec (NB=61.179 MB/sec 489.432 MBit/sec) 16 procs
>>...
>>
>>2.4.18-pre6+tux+nfs-fixes + low latency patch
>>---------------------------------
>>...
>>Throughput 106.361 MB/sec (NB=132.951 MB/sec 1063.61 MBit/sec) 16 procs
>>...
>>
>
>Now that's odd.
>
Yes this smells like a statistical anomaly -
Will run mulitple tests tonight and see if
there's an actual trend there or just a
blip on the screen.
Joe
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-25 1:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-25 0:51 Testing the effects of the low latency patch J Sloan
2002-01-25 1:03 ` Andrew Morton
2002-01-25 1:14 ` J Sloan [this message]
2002-01-25 1:23 ` Andrew Morton
2002-01-25 1:37 ` J Sloan
2002-01-25 1:19 ` J Sloan
2002-01-25 1:39 ` Mark Hahn
2002-01-25 2:26 ` J Sloan
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