From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266213AbUBDE4Q (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Feb 2004 23:56:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266232AbUBDE4P (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Feb 2004 23:56:15 -0500 Received: from mail-08.iinet.net.au ([203.59.3.40]:7143 "HELO mail.iinet.net.au") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S266213AbUBDE4M (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Feb 2004 23:56:12 -0500 Message-ID: <40207B67.7040407@cyberone.com.au> Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2004 15:56:07 +1100 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040122 Debian/1.6-1 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel Subject: Re: More VM benchmarks References: <40205908.4080600@cyberone.com.au> In-Reply-To: <40205908.4080600@cyberone.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Nick Piggin wrote: > http://www.kerneltrap.org/~npiggin/vm/5/ > > OK I'm not too unhappy with kbuild now. I've flattened the > curve a bit more since you last saw it. Would be nice if we > could get j8 and j10 faster but you can't win them all. > > I'm not sure what happens further on - Roger indicates that > perhaps 2.4 overtakes 2.6 again at j24 although the patchset > he used (http://www.kerneltrap.org/~npiggin/vm/3/) performs > far worse than this one at j16. This is really not a big > deal IMO, but I might run it and see what happens. > They're about even here at an hour apiece. Thats good, not that I would ever try to optimise for this case... 2.6.2-rc3-mm1-np3 kbuild: make -j24 bzImage 144.45user 31.58system 1:00:08elapsed 4%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 0inputs+0outputs (380524major+919600minor)pagefaults 0swaps npiggin@ropeable:~/vm$ cat bkb-24.out 2.4.23 kbuild: make -j24 bzImage 148.41user 43.11system 1:02:41elapsed 5%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 0inputs+0outputs (612476major+633988minor)pagefaults 0swaps