Re: Nick's scheduler v16

["Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>]

> I'm starting to do some large SMP / NUMA testing. Fixed and changed quite
> a bit. It isn't too bad, although I'm only testing dbench, tbench, and
> volanomark at the moment.
> 
> These SMP and NUMA changes are not tied to my interactivity stuff, so its
> possible they could get included if they turn out well. If you find any
> problems with it (high end or interactivity), please let me know.

Interesting ... some things get getter, some worse:

Kernbench: (make -j N vmlinux, where N = 2 x num_cpus)
                              Elapsed      System        User         CPU
              2.6.0-test8       45.20      100.97      566.65     1476.25
         2.6.0-test8-nick       44.81       93.98      568.49     1477.50
        2.6.0-test8-nick2       44.78       94.69      568.81     1482.00

elapsed is a tiny bit faster, system is significantly less, but with
higher parallelism:


Kernbench: (make -j vmlinux, maximal tasks)
                              Elapsed      System        User         CPU
              2.6.0-test8       45.86      119.41      569.66     1502.00
         2.6.0-test8-nick       47.00      112.75      590.40     1495.00
        2.6.0-test8-nick2       47.11      112.86      590.31     1491.50

elapsed is definitely worse now.
SDET is a happy bunny though:

SDET 128  (see disclaimer)
                           Throughput    Std. Dev
              2.6.0-test8       100.0%         0.3%
         2.6.0-test8-nick       109.9%         0.2%

Much of the changes there might just be backing out Con's interactivity
changes ...

M.