Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263439AbUCTPKK (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Mar 2004 10:10:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263437AbUCTPKK (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Mar 2004 10:10:10 -0500 Received: from holomorphy.com ([207.189.100.168]:31112 "EHLO holomorphy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263439AbUCTPKF (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Mar 2004 10:10:05 -0500 Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 07:09:56 -0800 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Nick Piggin , Andrew Morton , mjy@geizhals.at, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: CONFIG_PREEMPT and server workloads Message-ID: <20040320150956.GE2045@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Andrea Arcangeli , Nick Piggin , Andrew Morton , mjy@geizhals.at, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <40591EC1.1060204@geizhals.at> <20040318060358.GC29530@dualathlon.random> <20040318015004.227fddfb.akpm@osdl.org> <20040318145129.GA2246@dualathlon.random> <405A584B.40601@cyberone.com.au> <20040319050948.GN2045@holomorphy.com> <20040320121423.GA9009@dualathlon.random> <20040320145111.GD2045@holomorphy.com> <20040320150311.GN9009@dualathlon.random> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040320150311.GN9009@dualathlon.random> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1191 Lines: 24 On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 06:51:11AM -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> I may have missed one of his posts where he gave the results from the >> RT test suite. I found a list of functions with some kind of numbers, >> though I didn't see a description of what those numbers were and was >> looking for something more detailed (e.g. the output of the RT >> instrumentation things he had with and without preempt). This is all >> mostly curiosity and sort of hoping this gets carried out vaguely >> scientifically anyway, so I'm not really arguing one way or the other. On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 04:03:11PM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > agreed. what I've seen so far is a great number of graphs, they were > scientific enough for my needs and covering real life different > workloads, but I'm not sure what Takashi published exactly, you may want > to discuss it with him. I didn't see the graphs; they may be helpful for my purposes. -- wli - 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/