Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 18 Jan 2001 16:52:25 -0800 | From | Mike Kravetz <> | Subject | Re: [Lse-tech] Re: multi-queue scheduler update |
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On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 01:26:16AM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 03:53:11PM -0800, Mike Kravetz wrote: > > Here are some very preliminary numbers from sched_test_yield > > (which was previously posted to this (lse-tech) list by Bill > > Hartner). Tests were run on a system with 8 700 MHz Pentium > > III processors. > > > > microseconds/yield > > # threads 2.2.16-22 2.4 2.4-multi-queue > > ------------ --------- -------- --------------- > > 16 18.740 4.603 1.455 > > I remeber the O(1) scheduler from Davide Libenzi was beating the mainline O(N) > scheduler with over 7 tasks in the runqueue (actually I'm not sure if the > number was 7 but certainly it was under 10). So if you also use a O(1) > scheduler too as I guess (since you have a chance to run fast on the lots of > tasks running case) the most interesting thing is how you score with 2/4/8 > tasks in the runqueue (I think the tests on the O(1) scheduler patch was done > at max on a 2-way SMP btw). (the argument for which Davide's patch wasn't > included is that most machines have less than 4/5 tasks in the runqueue at the > same time) > > Andrea
Thanks for the suggestion. The only reason I hesitated to test with a small number of threads is because I was under the assumption that this particular benchmark may have problems if the number of threads was less than the number of processors. I'll give the tests a try with a smaller number of threads. I'm also open to suggestions for what benchmarks/test methods I could use for scheduler testing. If you remember what people have used in the past, please let me know.
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