Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261166AbUCALhL (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Mar 2004 06:37:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261218AbUCALhL (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Mar 2004 06:37:11 -0500 Received: from mail-03.iinet.net.au ([203.59.3.35]:56002 "HELO mail.iinet.net.au") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261166AbUCALhG (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Mar 2004 06:37:06 -0500 Message-ID: <4043205C.7050109@cyberone.com.au> Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 22:37:00 +1100 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040122 Debian/1.6-1 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Con Kolivas CC: linux kernel mailing list , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] SMT Nice 2.6.4-rc1-mm1 References: <200403011752.56600.kernel@kolivas.org> <200403012225.59538.kernel@kolivas.org> In-Reply-To: <200403012225.59538.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: 783 Lines: 26 Con Kolivas wrote: >On Mon, 1 Mar 2004 05:52 pm, Con Kolivas wrote: > >>This patch provides full per-package priority support for SMT processors >>(aka pentium4 hyperthreading) when combined with CONFIG_SCHED_SMT. >> > >And here are some benchmarks to demonstrate what happens. >P4 3.06Ghz booted with bios HT off as UP (up), SMP with mm1(mm1), SMP with >mm1-smtnice(sn) > > Pretty impressive numbers. How does it go on the desktop when running mprime at nice +19? How much worse can latencies of the niced tasks become? Any idea? - 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/