On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 21:15 -0500, Alejandro Bonilla wrote:I will give it a try.
OK, I will, but I first of all need to learn how to tell if benchmarks are better or worse.
Con's interactivity benchmark looks quite promising for finding
scheduler related interactivity regressions. It certainly has confirmed
what we already knew re: SCHED_FIFO performance, if we extend that to
SCHED_OTHER which is a more interesting problem then there's serious
potential for improvement. AFAIK no one has posted any 2.4 vs 2.6
interbench results yet...
I suspect a lot of the boot time issue is due to userspace. But, itYou got it! As a laptop user, I think it just takes too much more. I think it is maybe hotplugs fault with the kernel? I don't know how much is done by the kernel or userspace but it definitely takes longer.
should be trivial to benchmark this one, just use the TSC or whatever to
measure the time from first kernel entry to execing init().
Lee