From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267677AbUHEOPN (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Aug 2004 10:15:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267731AbUHEOOX (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Aug 2004 10:14:23 -0400 Received: from mx2.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:26578 "EHLO mx2.elte.hu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267725AbUHEOKR (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Aug 2004 10:10:17 -0400 Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 12:45:37 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Rick Lindsley Cc: "Martin J. Bligh" , Peter Williams , Andrew Morton , kernel@kolivas.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 performance improvements (scheduler?) Message-ID: <20040805104537.GA20466@elte.hu> References: <239380000.1091663979@flay> <200408050520.i755K6503436@owlet.beaverton.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200408050520.i755K6503436@owlet.beaverton.ibm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-ELTE-SpamVersion: MailScanner 4.31.6-itk1 (ELTE 1.2) SpamAssassin 2.63 ClamAV 0.73 X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-4.9, required 5.9, autolearn=not spam, BAYES_00 -4.90 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamScore: -4 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Rick Lindsley wrote: > Okay, they're done. Here's the URL of the graphs: > > http://eaglet.rain.com/rick/linux/staircase/scase-vs-noscase.html > > General summary: as Martin reported, we're seeing improvements in a > number of areas, at least with sdet. The graphs as listed there > represent stats from four separate sdet runs run sequentially with an > increasing load. (We're trying to see if we can get the information > from each run separately, rather than the aggregate -- one of the > hazards of an automated test harness :) really nice results! Would be interesting to see the effect of Con's patch on other SMP/NUMA workloads as well - i'd expect to see an improvement there too. The test was done with the default interactive=1 compute=0 setting, right? Ingo