Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 4 Aug 2004 22:10:19 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 performance improvements (scheduler?) |
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* Martin J. Bligh <mbligh@aracnet.com> wrote:
> >> SDET 16 (see disclaimer) > >> Throughput Std. Dev > >> 2.6.7 100.0% 0.3% > >> 2.6.8-rc2 99.5% 0.3% > >> 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 118.5% 0.6% > > > > hum, interesting. Can Con's changes affect the inter-node and inter-cpu > > balancing decisions, or is this all due to caching effects, reduced context > > switching etc?
Martin, could you try 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 with staircase-cpu-scheduler unapplied a re-run at least part of your tests?
there are a number of NUMA improvements queued up on -mm, and it would be nice to know what effect these cause, and what effect the staircase scheduler has.
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