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From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: David B Harris <david@eelf.ddts.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test6 scheduler goodness
Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2003 11:50:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3n0cgau83.fsf@averell.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D0zL.3Ew.19@gated-at.bofh.it> (David B Harris's message of "Sat, 04 Oct 2003 21:50:10 +0200")

David B Harris <david@eelf.ddts.net> writes:

> 4) In either 2.6.0-test5, or 2.6.0-test6 (I'm using 2.6.0-test6, I
> skipped test5), responsiveness was magically fixed for my workload case.
> I still have lower throughput, apparently (big compiles and whatnot take
> about 20% longer), but I recently got a CPU upgrade so I don't

Everything CPU bound should run a few percent slower on 2.6 because
it uses HZ=1000. You could recompile with HZ=100 and see if that fixes
that (just change HZ to 100 in asm/param.h)

20% sounds a big high just for HZ degradation though.

-Andi


       reply	other threads:[~2003-10-05  9:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <D0zL.3Ew.19@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-10-05  9:50 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2003-10-04 19:17 2.6.0-test6 scheduler goodness David B Harris
2003-10-05  3:13 ` Nick Piggin

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