Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263884AbTIICdJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Sep 2003 22:33:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263893AbTIICdJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Sep 2003 22:33:09 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:1922 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263884AbTIICdE (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Sep 2003 22:33:04 -0400 Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 19:33:44 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Con Kolivas Cc: slpratt@austin.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Minor scheduler fix to get rid of skipping in xmms Message-Id: <20030908193344.157962b8.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <200309091231.48709.kernel@kolivas.org> References: <3F5D023A.5090405@austin.ibm.com> <200309091210.06333.kernel@kolivas.org> <200309091216.32964.kernel@kolivas.org> <200309091231.48709.kernel@kolivas.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 886 Lines: 24 Con Kolivas wrote: > > > Correction sorry: These changes were due to > > sched-CAN_MIGRATE_TASK-fix.patch and the test results say > > volano-results-2.6.0-test5-A0-* > > Further testing shows the patch: sched-balance-fix-2.6.0-test3-mm3-A0.patch to > have no effect on volano results by itself. OK, thanks. As I have just learnt that volanomark is dominated by sched_yield()-based userspace locking I have suddenly lost all interest in it. We don't want to tune the kernel for braindead locking implementations. Call me when it has been converted to futexes ;) Do we know what specjbb is doing internally? - 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/