Re: Schedulers benchmark - Was: [ANNOUNCE][RFC] PlugSched-5.2.4 for 2.6.12 and 2.6.13-rc6

Michal Piotrowski
2005-08-17T11:59:06Z

Hi,

On 8/17/05, Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au> wrote:
> I was intrigued by the fact that zaphod(d,d) and zaphod(d,0) take longer
> in real time but use less cpu. I was assuming that this meant that some
> other job was getting some cpu but the schedstats data doesn't support
> that. Also it wouldn't make sense anyway as you'd expect jobs doing the
> same amount of work to use roughly the same amount of cpu. My latest
> theory is that your machine has hyper threads and this artifact is
> caused by the mechanism in the scheduler for handling tasks with
> differing priority in sibling hyper thread channels. Does your system
> have hyper threads?

Yes. Please see my first mail:
> info:
> distro: debian 3.1
> cpu: pentium 4 (ht enabled)

Regards,
Michal Piotrowski