Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263933AbTIIEQJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Sep 2003 00:16:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263945AbTIIEQJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Sep 2003 00:16:09 -0400 Received: from dyn-ctb-203-221-72-196.webone.com.au ([203.221.72.196]:51972 "EHLO chimp.local.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263933AbTIIEQD (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Sep 2003 00:16:03 -0400 Message-ID: <3F5D53B9.8050004@cyberone.com.au> Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2003 14:14:49 +1000 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030827 Debian/1.4-3 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Con Kolivas CC: Andrew Morton , Steven Pratt , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Minor scheduler fix to get rid of skipping in xmms References: <3F5D023A.5090405@austin.ibm.com> <200309091210.06333.kernel@kolivas.org> <200309091216.32964.kernel@kolivas.org> <200309091231.48709.kernel@kolivas.org> In-Reply-To: <200309091231.48709.kernel@kolivas.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2138 Lines: 69 Con Kolivas wrote: >On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 12:16, Con Kolivas wrote: > >>On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 12:10, Con Kolivas wrote: >> >>>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-tes >>>>t4 /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-tes >>>>t4 /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. >>> >>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. > Hi Con, Any chance you could give this http://www.kerneltrap.org/~npiggin/v14/sched-rollup-nopolicy-v14.gz a try? It should apply against test5. - 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/