Re: 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 performance improvements (scheduler?)

[Ingo Molnar]

* Rick Lindsley <ricklind@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Okay, they're done. Here's the URL of the graphs:
> 
>     http://eaglet.rain.com/rick/linux/staircase/scase-vs-noscase.html
> 
> General summary: as Martin reported, we're seeing improvements in a
> number of areas, at least with sdet.  The graphs as listed there
> represent stats from four separate sdet runs run sequentially with an
> increasing load. (We're trying to see if we can get the information
> from each run separately, rather than the aggregate -- one of the
> hazards of an automated test harness :)

really nice results! Would be interesting to see the effect of Con's
patch on other SMP/NUMA workloads as well - i'd expect to see an
improvement there too. The test was done with the default interactive=1
compute=0 setting, right?

	Ingo
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