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From: Phy Prabab <phyprabab@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Staircase Scheduler v6.3 for 2.6.7-rc2
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the results I published also included 2.4.23 runs
which do not have the stair step scheduler.

Also, I have run this on 2.6-1->2.6.7-rc<x>, all the
2.6.x series are slower than the 2.4 series.

Thank you for your time.
Phy

--- Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> > At a guess I'd say either a) you're hitting some
> path in the kernel which
> > is going for a giant and bogus romp through
> memory, trashing CPU caches or
> > b) your workload really dislikes
> run-child-first-after-fork or c) the page
> > allocator is serving up pages which your access
> pattern dislikes or d)
> > something else.
> > 
> 
> e) it's the staircase scheduler patch?


	
		
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