Re: sched_domains and Stream benchmark

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Mon Apr 26 2004 - 21:35:17 EST


> I noticed your binary ran with N=2000000 which is only sufficient for a
> 2 proc 1 MB cache opteron box according to the documentation on the

It does not seem to make any difference.

> stream faq. I also noticed wide variation in results (25% or so) when
> running with 4 threads on a 4 proc opteron on linux-2.6.5-mm5. Can you
> provide me with the specs of the system you ran your tests on?

Yes, mm5 is still broken because it has the "tuned to numasaurus" numa
scheduler. Run it on a standard (non mm*) kernel or with Ingo's early
load balance patch.

-Andi
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