Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754389AbZIHLa1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Sep 2009 07:30:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754304AbZIHLa1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Sep 2009 07:30:27 -0400 Received: from mail-in-10.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.50]:51550 "EHLO mail-in-10.arcor-online.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752928AbZIHLa0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Sep 2009 07:30:26 -0400 X-DKIM: Sendmail DKIM Filter v2.8.2 mail-in-05.arcor-online.net 49D023329C9 Message-ID: <4AA64052.4020509@arcor.de> Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:30:26 +0300 From: Nikos Chantziaras Organization: Lucas Barks User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.1) Gecko/20090826 Thunderbird/3.0b3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: tfjellstrom@shaw.ca CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: BFS vs. mainline scheduler benchmarks and measurements References: <20090906205952.GA6516@elte.hu> <200909071754.28675.tfjellstrom@shaw.ca> In-Reply-To: <200909071754.28675.tfjellstrom@shaw.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1140 Lines: 26 On 09/08/2009 02:54 AM, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote: > On Sun September 6 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> [...] >> For reference, my system is: >> >> CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 (2.4GHz) >> Mainboard: Asus P5E (Intel X38 chipset) >> RAM: 6GB (2+2+1+1) dual channel DDR2 800 >> GPU: RV770 (Radeon HD4870). >> > > My Phenom 9550 (2.2Ghz) whips the pants off my Intel Q6600 (2.6Ghz). I and a > friend of mine both get large amounts of stalling when doing a lot of IO. I > haven't seen such horrible desktop interactivity since before the new > schedulers and the -ck patchset came out for 2.4.x. Its a heck of a lot better > on my AMD Phenom's, but some lag is noticeable these days, even when it wasn't > a few kernel releases ago. It seems someone tried BFS on quite slower hardware: Android. According to the feedback, the device is much more responsive with BFS: http://twitter.com/cyanogen -- 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/