From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
Cc: Con Kolivas <conman@kolivas.net>,
linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [BENCHMARK] 2.5.46-mm1 with contest
Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2002 15:58:48 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DCAFE38.16DED3BF@digeo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1036712891.764.2055.camel@phantasy
Robert Love wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 17:53, Con Kolivas wrote:
>
> > io_load:
> > Kernel [runs] Time CPU% Loads LCPU% Ratio
> > 2.5.44-mm6 [3] 284.1 28 20 10 3.98
> > 2.5.46 [1] 600.5 13 48 12 8.41
> > 2.5.46-mm1 [5] 134.3 58 6 8 1.88
> >
> > Big change here. IO load is usually the one we feel the most.
>
> Nice.
Mysterious.
> > Unfortunately I've only run this with preempt enabled so far and I believe
> > many of the improvements are showing this effect.
>
> Since your aim is desktop performance, I would like it if you always ran
> with kernel preemption enabled. That is what we are targeting for
> desktop performance.
I'd be interested in average-of-five runs both with and without
preemption.
Preemption seemed to do odd things to process_load as well. gcc gained
10% and the "load" lost 40%. But the %LCPU fell only 25%, which is
probably dodgy accounting. I wonder what's up with all that.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-07 23:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-07 22:53 [BENCHMARK] 2.5.46-mm1 with contest Con Kolivas
2002-11-07 23:48 ` Robert Love
2002-11-07 23:58 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2002-11-08 0:04 ` Robert Love
2002-11-08 6:04 ` Con Kolivas
2002-11-08 0:10 ` Benjamin LaHaise
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-11-08 0:32 Alan Willis
2002-11-08 0:48 ` Andrew Morton
2002-11-08 21:08 ` Alan Willis
2002-11-08 21:21 ` Andrew Morton
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2002-11-11 21:03 ` Andrew Morton
2002-11-11 21:11 ` Alan Willis
2002-11-11 21:32 ` Andrew Morton
2002-11-13 0:14 ` Denis Vlasenko
2002-11-12 20:07 ` Alan Willis
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