Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262378AbUC3HUy (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Mar 2004 02:20:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263156AbUC3HUi (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Mar 2004 02:20:38 -0500 Received: from smtp104.mail.sc5.yahoo.com ([66.163.169.223]:7828 "HELO smtp104.mail.sc5.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262378AbUC3HTF (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Mar 2004 02:19:05 -0500 Message-ID: <40691F46.1020200@yahoo.com.au> Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 17:18:30 +1000 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: Ingo Molnar CC: Andi Kleen , jun.nakajima@intel.com, ricklind@us.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org, kernel@kolivas.org, rusty@rustcorp.com.au, anton@samba.org, lse-tech@lists.sourceforge.net, mbligh@aracnet.com Subject: Re: [Lse-tech] [patch] sched-domain cleanups, sched-2.6.5-rc2-mm2-A3 References: <20040325203032.GA15663@elte.hu> <20040329084531.GB29458@wotan.suse.de> <4068066C.507@yahoo.com.au> <20040329080150.4b8fd8ef.ak@suse.de> <20040329114635.GA30093@elte.hu> <20040329221434.4602e062.ak@suse.de> <4068B692.9020307@yahoo.com.au> <20040330083450.368eafc6.ak@suse.de> <20040330064015.GA19036@elte.hu> <20040330090716.67d2a493.ak@suse.de> <20040330071519.GA20227@elte.hu> In-Reply-To: <20040330071519.GA20227@elte.hu> 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: 941 Lines: 25 Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Andi Kleen wrote: > > >>>Andi, could you please try the patch below - this will test whether this >>>has to do with the rate of balancing between NUMA nodes. The patch >>>itself is not correct (it way overbalances on NUMA), but it tests the >>>theory. >> >>This works much better, but wildly varying (my tests go from 2.8xCPU >>to ~3.8x CPU for 4 CPUs. 2,3 CPU cases are ok). A bit more consistent >>results would be better though. > > > ok, could you try min_interval,max_interval and busy_factor all with a > value as 4, in sched.h's SD_NODE_INIT template? (again, only for testing > purposes.) > (sorry, forget what I said then, I'll leave it to Ingo) - 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/