Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263788AbTIICCm (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Sep 2003 22:02:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263843AbTIICCm (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Sep 2003 22:02:42 -0400 Received: from c210-49-248-224.thoms1.vic.optusnet.com.au ([210.49.248.224]:45710 "EHLO mail.kolivas.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263788AbTIICCY (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Sep 2003 22:02:24 -0400 From: Con Kolivas To: Andrew Morton , Steven Pratt Subject: Re: [PATCH] Minor scheduler fix to get rid of skipping in xmms Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 12:10:06 +1000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <3F5D023A.5090405@austin.ibm.com> <20030908155639.2cdc8b56.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20030908155639.2cdc8b56.akpm@osdl.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200309091210.06333.kernel@kolivas.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1489 Lines: 42 On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 08:56, Andrew Morton wrote: > Steven Pratt wrote: > > For specjbb things are looking good from a throughput point of view. > > ... > > Volanomark, on the other hand is still off by quite a bit from test4 > > stock > > hmm, thanks. > > I'm not sure that volanomark is very representative of any real-world > thing. > > > ... > > If thre is any particular patch/tree combination you would like me to > > try out, please let me know and I will see if I can get the results for > > you. > > Could we please see test5 versus test5 plus Andrew's patch? > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.0-test4/2 >.6.0-test4-mm6/broken-out/sched-CAN_MIGRATE_TASK-fix.patch > > and if you have time, also test5 plus sched-CAN_MIGRATE_TASK-fix.patch plus > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.0-test4/2 >.6.0-test4-mm6/broken-out/sched-balance-fix-2.6.0-test3-mm3-A0.patch Interestingly enough this drops the volano results the same proportion as Ingo's A3 patch. 11000 ->10400 throughput with same idle, but more schedule(). I've posted some results for test5 volano and test5-A0 here: http://kernel.kolivas.org/2.5/volano More testing underway. Con - 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/