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SubjectRe: BFS vs. mainline scheduler benchmarks and measurements
On 09/08/2009 11:04 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
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> * Pekka Pietikainen<pp@ee.oulu.fi> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 10:57:01PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>>>>> Could you profile it please? Also, what's the context-switch rate?
>>>>
>>>> As far as I can tell, the broadcom mips architecture does not have
>>>> profiling support. It does only have some proprietary profiling
>>>> registers that nobody wrote kernel support for, yet.
>>> Well, what does 'vmstat 1' show - how many context switches are
>>> there per second on the iperf server? In theory if it's a truly
>>> saturated box, there shouldnt be many - just a single iperf task
>>
>> Yay, finally something that's measurable in this thread \o/
>
> My initial posting in this thread contains 6 separate types of
> measurements, rather extensive ones. Out of those, 4 measurements
> were latency oriented, two were throughput oriented. Plenty of data,
> plenty of results, and very good reproducability.

None of which involve latency-prone GUI applications running on cheap
commodity hardware though. I listed examples where mainline seems to
behave sub-optimal and ways to reproduce them but this doesn't seem to
be an area of interest.


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