Re: CPU scheduler tests

[Richard Hubbell <richard.hubbell@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 09:32:24 +0100, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> 
> * Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru> wrote:
> 
> > Can someone (Ingo?) recommend me CPU scheduler tests which are usually 
> > used to test CPU scheduler perfomance, context switch performance, 
> > SMP/migration/balancing performance etc.?
> 
> it's not really the microbenchmarks that matter (although they obviously 
> are part of the picture), but actual application performance. There are 
> dozens of workloads that matter. Kernel compilation timings are an 
> obvious priority :-), but there are other things like SPECsdet, STREAM, 
> dbt3-pgsql, kernbench, AIM7, various Java benchmarks and more.
> 
> now that scheduler changes have calmed down somewhat, we are mainly 
> looking for regressions, and are checking schedstats output to see how 
> 'healthy' a given workload behaves.

Do you keep the results available somewhere they can be browsed?

Richard