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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.

  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
     [not found]       ` <YWxhbg==.a11f3fbc6d68c50c7f190513c1d3bacf@1037045821.cotse.net>
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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