Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 20 Sep 2002 16:11:26 -0700 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: 2.5.36-mm1 dbench 512 profiles |
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At some point in the past, I wrote: >> AFAICT, with one bottleneck out of the way, a new one merely arises to >> take its place. Ugly. OTOH the qualitative difference is striking. The >> interactive responsiveness of the machine, even when entirely unloaded, >> is drastically improved, along with such nice things as init scripts >> and kernel compiles also markedly faster. I suspect this is just the >> wrong benchmark to show throughput benefits with.
On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 02:30:23PM -0700, Martin J. Bligh wrote: > Hmmm ... I think you need the NUMA aware scheduler ;-) > On the plus side, that does look like RCU pretty much obliterated the dcache > problems ....
This sounds like a likely solution to the expense of load_balance(). Do you have a patch for it floating around?
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