Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754049AbaBFULI (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Feb 2014 15:11:08 -0500 Received: from g4t0016.houston.hp.com ([15.201.24.19]:15105 "EHLO g4t0016.houston.hp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751426AbaBFULG convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Feb 2014 15:11:06 -0500 From: "Norton, Scott J" To: "Long, Wai Man" , Peter Zijlstra CC: "Low, Jason" , "mingo@redhat.com" , "paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com" , "torvalds@linux-foundation.org" , "tglx@linutronix.de" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "riel@redhat.com" , "akpm@linux-foundation.org" , "Bueso, Davidlohr" , "hpa@zytor.com" , "andi@firstfloor.org" , "Chandramouleeswaran, Aswin" , "Vinod, Chegu" Subject: RE: [RFC][PATCH v2 5/5] mutex: Give spinners a chance to spin_on_owner if need_resched() triggered while queued Thread-Topic: [RFC][PATCH v2 5/5] mutex: Give spinners a chance to spin_on_owner if need_resched() triggered while queued Thread-Index: AQHPHF0cp8t15pjM302Bqq3hOCL8MJqaoUqAgAAc+YCAANn2AIALpfcAgAER0ICAAE6BgIAAFPrQ Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 20:10:02 +0000 Message-ID: References: <1390936396-3962-1-git-send-email-jason.low2@hp.com> <1390936396-3962-6-git-send-email-jason.low2@hp.com> <20140128210753.GJ11314@laptop.programming.kicks-ass.net> <1390949495.2807.52.camel@j-VirtualBox> <20140129115142.GE9636@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> <52F2B0C2.8040408@hp.com> <20140206140435.GU8874@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> <52F3D84D.5060309@hp.com> In-Reply-To: <52F3D84D.5060309@hp.com> Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: x-originating-ip: [16.210.48.28] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >> I run the patch through the AIM7 high-systime workload on a >> 4-socket server and it seemed to run fine. > How do people run this AIM7 piece of shit? I let it run for over an hour > and it generated exactly 0 numbers, it just sits there eating cpu-time > and creating a racket from my pantry. ./reaim -s100 -e2000 -t -j100 -i100 -f workfile.high_systime The reaim.config file contains: FILESIZE 10k POOLSIZE 1m DISKDIR /t0 DISKDIR /t1 DISKDIR /t2 DISKDIR /t3 DISKDIR /t4 DISKDIR /t5 DISKDIR /t6 DISKDIR /t7 DISKDIR /t8 DISKDIR /t9 DISKDIR /t10 DISKDIR /t11 DISKDIR /t12 DISKDIR /t13 DISKDIR /t14 DISKDIR /t15 The way Longman uses this is to create 16 ramdisk filesystems through /dev/ram* and then mount those filesystems to the /t* directories. Although you could run it through a regular filesystem also. It will use whatever you place in the reaim.config file as DISKDIR. You can specify one or more DISKDIR directories. Scott -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/