Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263355AbUDPPOI (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Apr 2004 11:14:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263281AbUDPPOI (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Apr 2004 11:14:08 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:26328 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263355AbUDPPM7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Apr 2004 11:12:59 -0400 Message-Id: <200404161512.i3GFCJ213869@mail.osdl.org> Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 07:52:39 -0700 (PDT) From: markw@osdl.org Subject: Re: 2.6.5-mm5 To: mingo@elte.hu cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au In-Reply-To: <20040416103414.GA736@elte.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 991 Lines: 29 On 16 Apr, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * markw@osdl.org wrote: > >> I have more results with DBT-2 on my 4-way Xeon system: >> http://developer.osdl.org/markw/fs/dbt2_project_results.html >> >> It doesn't look like the latest cpu scheduler work is helping this >> workload. I've also made sure that the database was set to use fsync >> instead of fdatasync so you can see if those fsync speedup patches are >> offering anything with this workload too. >> >> ext2 ext3 >> 2.6.5-mm5 2165 1933 >> 2.6.5-mm4 2180 >> 2.6.5-mm3 2165 1930 >> 2.6.5 2385 > > how stable are the results? Could the 2180 => 2165 drop be noise? I've found results to bt stable within a few percent, so this drop could be noise. Mark - 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/