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From: arjan@fenrus.demon.nl
To: kravetz@us.ibm.com (Mike Kravetz)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Context switch times
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2001 22:14:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E15pFor-0004sC-00@fenrus.demon.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011004140417.C1245@w-mikek2.des.beaverton.ibm.com>

In article <20011004140417.C1245@w-mikek2.des.beaverton.ibm.com> you wrote:
> 2.4.10 on 8 CPUs:  lat_ctx -s 0 -r 2 results
> "size=0k ovr=2.27
> 2 3.86

> 2.2.16-22 on 8 CPUS:  lat_ctx -s 0 -r 2 results
> "size=0k ovr=1.99
> 2 1.44

> As you can see, the context switch times for 2.4.10 are more
> than double what they were for 2.2.16-22 in this example.  

> Comments?

2.4.x supports SSE on pentium III/athlons, so the SSE registers need to be
saved/restored on a taskswitch as well.... that's not exactly free.


  reply	other threads:[~2001-10-04 21:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-04 21:04 Mike Kravetz
2001-10-04 21:14 ` arjan [this message]
2001-10-04 21:39   ` Richard Gooch
2001-10-09  4:55     ` Richard Gooch
2001-10-09 13:49       ` bill davidsen
2001-10-04 21:25 ` David S. Miller
2001-10-04 21:52   ` David S. Miller
2001-10-04 21:55     ` Benjamin LaHaise
2001-10-04 22:35       ` Davide Libenzi
2001-10-04 22:49         ` Mike Kravetz
2001-10-04 22:42       ` Linus Torvalds
2001-10-04 22:53         ` Benjamin LaHaise
2001-10-05 15:13           ` Alan Cox
2001-10-05 17:49             ` george anzinger
2001-10-05 22:29               ` Alan Cox
2001-10-05 22:56                 ` Davide Libenzi
2001-10-05 23:04                   ` Alan Cox
2001-10-05 23:16                     ` Davide Libenzi
2001-10-05 23:17                       ` Alan Cox
2001-10-05 23:21                         ` Davide Libenzi
2001-10-05 23:43                     ` Roger Larsson
2001-10-07  1:20                 ` george anzinger
2001-10-07  1:33                   ` Bill Davidsen
2001-10-07  9:56                   ` Alan Cox
2001-10-06  2:24             ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-10-06  2:57               ` Davide Libenzi
2001-10-07  9:57             ` Mika Liljeberg
2001-10-07 13:03               ` Ingo Oeser
2001-10-07 13:48                 ` Mika Liljeberg
2001-10-07 14:24                   ` Ingo Oeser
2001-10-07 14:33                     ` Mika Liljeberg
2001-10-07 18:00                       ` george anzinger
2001-10-07 22:06                         ` Mika Liljeberg
2001-10-07 22:31                           ` Davide Libenzi
2001-10-07 22:33                             ` Mika Liljeberg
2001-10-07 23:49                           ` george anzinger
2001-10-08 21:07                             ` Mika Liljeberg
2001-10-08 22:54                               ` discontig physical memory Petko Manolov
2001-10-08 23:05                               ` David S. Miller
2001-10-08 23:18                                 ` Petko Manolov
2001-10-08 23:29                                 ` David S. Miller
2001-10-09  0:34                                   ` Petko Manolov
2001-10-09  0:36                                   ` Petko Manolov
2001-10-09  1:37                                   ` David S. Miller
2001-10-09  2:43                                     ` Petko Manolov
2001-10-08 15:19                       ` Context switch times bill davidsen
2001-10-10  6:07                         ` Mike Fedyk
2001-10-07 18:39               ` Davide Libenzi
2001-10-09 20:37               ` Hubertus Franke
2001-10-09 23:50                 ` george anzinger
2001-10-11 10:52                   ` Hubertus Franke
2001-10-04 23:41         ` Mike Kravetz
2001-10-04 23:50           ` Linus Torvalds
2001-10-05 15:15             ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-10-04 23:56           ` Davide Libenzi
2001-10-05  0:45           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-10-05  4:35             ` Mike Kravetz
2001-10-07 17:59               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-10-07 19:54                 ` george anzinger
2001-10-07 20:24                   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-10-09  5:00     ` David S. Miller
2001-10-05  6:31 Michailidis, Dimitrios

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