Re: Scheduler benchmarks - a follow-up

2007-09-18 Thread Rob Hussey
On 9/18/07, Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * Rob Hussey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The obligatory graphs: > > http://www.healthcarelinen.com/misc/benchmarks/BOUND_NOPREEMPT_lat_ctx_benchmark.png > > http://

Re: Scheduler benchmarks - a follow-up

2007-09-18 Thread Rob Hussey
On 9/18/07, Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * Rob Hussey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > A cursory glance suggests that performance wrt lat_ctx and hackbench > > has increased (lower numbers), but degraded quite a lot for pipe-test. > > The num

Re: Scheduler benchmarks - a follow-up

2007-09-18 Thread Rob Hussey
On 9/18/07, Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Rob Hussey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A cursory glance suggests that performance wrt lat_ctx and hackbench has increased (lower numbers), but degraded quite a lot for pipe-test. The numbers for pipe-test are extremely stable though, while

Re: Scheduler benchmarks - a follow-up

2007-09-18 Thread Rob Hussey
On 9/18/07, Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Rob Hussey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The obligatory graphs: http://www.healthcarelinen.com/misc/benchmarks/BOUND_NOPREEMPT_lat_ctx_benchmark.png http://www.healthcarelinen.com/misc/benchmarks/BOUND_NOPREEMPT_hackbench_benchmark.png http

Re: Scheduler benchmarks - a follow-up

2007-09-17 Thread Rob Hussey
On 9/18/07, Willy Tarreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Rob, > > On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 12:30:05AM -0400, Rob Hussey wrote: > > I should have pointed out before that I don't really have a dual-core > > system, just a P4 with Hyper-Threading (I loosely used cor

Re: Scheduler benchmarks - a follow-up

2007-09-17 Thread Rob Hussey
On 9/17/07, Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > i've meanwhile tested hackbench 90 and the performance difference > > between -ck and -cfs-devel seems to be mostly down to the more precise > > (but slower) sched_clock() introduced in v2.6.23

Re: Scheduler benchmarks - a follow-up

2007-09-17 Thread Rob Hussey
On 9/17/07, Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * Rob Hussey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > http://www.healthcarelinen.com/misc/benchmarks/BOUND_hackbench_benchmark2.png > > heh - am i the only one impressed by the consistency of the blue line in >

Re: Scheduler benchmarks - a follow-up

2007-09-17 Thread Rob Hussey
On 9/17/07, Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Rob Hussey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.healthcarelinen.com/misc/benchmarks/BOUND_hackbench_benchmark2.png heh - am i the only one impressed by the consistency of the blue line in this graph? :-) [ and the green line looks a bit

Re: Scheduler benchmarks - a follow-up

2007-09-17 Thread Rob Hussey
On 9/18/07, Willy Tarreau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Rob, On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 12:30:05AM -0400, Rob Hussey wrote: I should have pointed out before that I don't really have a dual-core system, just a P4 with Hyper-Threading (I loosely used core to refer to processor). Just

Re: Scheduler benchmarks - a follow-up

2007-09-17 Thread Rob Hussey
On 9/17/07, Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i've meanwhile tested hackbench 90 and the performance difference between -ck and -cfs-devel seems to be mostly down to the more precise (but slower) sched_clock() introduced in v2.6.23 and to the

Re: rtl8187 driver in 2.6.23-rc6-git5: kernel panic if not used as a module. Works as a module.

2007-09-15 Thread Rob Hussey
On 9/15/07, ポール・ロラン Paul Rolland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Eric, > > On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 20:30:14 +0200 > Eric Valette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Rob Hussey wrote: > > > On 9/15/07, Eric Valette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >

Re: rtl8187 driver in 2.6.23-rc6-git5: kernel panic if not used as a module. Works as a module.

2007-09-15 Thread Rob Hussey
On 9/15/07, Eric Valette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Eric Valette wrote: > > > I can probably take a picture of the backtrace if you want. > > Just saw that just above my message in the LKML web interface, someone > posted a backtrace. Mine is different but at least, we are at least two > to have

Re: 2.6.23-rc6 : crash with RTL8187 USB

2007-09-15 Thread Rob Hussey
On 9/15/07, ポール・ロラン Paul Rolland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > Each time I add the support for this piece of hardware, I have a crash during > the boot process. > Serial console gives the attached boot message... > ... > WARNING: at lib/kref.c:33 kref_get() > Call Trace: > []

Re: 2.6.23-rc6 : crash with RTL8187 USB

2007-09-15 Thread Rob Hussey
On 9/15/07, ポール・ロラン Paul Rolland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Each time I add the support for this piece of hardware, I have a crash during the boot process. Serial console gives the attached boot message... ... WARNING: at lib/kref.c:33 kref_get() Call Trace: [8121fa41]

Re: rtl8187 driver in 2.6.23-rc6-git5: kernel panic if not used as a module. Works as a module.

2007-09-15 Thread Rob Hussey
On 9/15/07, Eric Valette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eric Valette wrote: I can probably take a picture of the backtrace if you want. Just saw that just above my message in the LKML web interface, someone posted a backtrace. Mine is different but at least, we are at least two to have the

Re: rtl8187 driver in 2.6.23-rc6-git5: kernel panic if not used as a module. Works as a module.

2007-09-15 Thread Rob Hussey
On 9/15/07, ポール・ロラン Paul Rolland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Eric, On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 20:30:14 +0200 Eric Valette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rob Hussey wrote: On 9/15/07, Eric Valette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eric Valette wrote: Thanks for your help: it does indeed fix

Re: [announce] CFS-devel, performance improvements

2007-09-13 Thread Rob Hussey
On 9/13/07, Rob Hussey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bound to single core: ... > hackbench 50 > # rc1 rc6 cfs-devel > 1 7.528 7.950 7.538 > 2 7.649 8.026 7.548 > 3 7.613 8.160 7.580 > 4 7.550 8.054 7.558 > 5 7.563 8.373 7.559 > 6 7.617 8.152 7.550 > 7

Re: [announce] CFS-devel, performance improvements

2007-09-13 Thread Rob Hussey
On 9/13/07, Rob Hussey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/13/07, Rob Hussey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 9/13/07, Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > * Rob Hussey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > &g

Re: [announce] CFS-devel, performance improvements

2007-09-13 Thread Rob Hussey
On 9/13/07, Rob Hussey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/13/07, Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > * Rob Hussey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On 9/13/07, Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >

Re: [announce] CFS-devel, performance improvements

2007-09-13 Thread Rob Hussey
On 9/13/07, Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * Rob Hussey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 9/13/07, Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > thanks for the numbers! Could you please also post the .config you used? > >

Re: [announce] CFS-devel, performance improvements

2007-09-13 Thread Rob Hussey
On 9/11/07, Rob Hussey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Ingo, > > When compiling, I get: Yeah, this was my fault :( I've had a chance to test this now, and everything feels great. I did some benchmarks for 2.6.23-rc1, 2.6.23-rc6-cfs, and 2.6.23-rc6-cfs-devel: lat_ctx -s

Re: [announce] CFS-devel, performance improvements

2007-09-13 Thread Rob Hussey
On 9/11/07, Rob Hussey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Ingo, When compiling, I get: Yeah, this was my fault :( I've had a chance to test this now, and everything feels great. I did some benchmarks for 2.6.23-rc1, 2.6.23-rc6-cfs, and 2.6.23-rc6-cfs-devel: lat_ctx -s 0 2: 2.6.23-rc1 2.6.23-rc6

Re: [announce] CFS-devel, performance improvements

2007-09-13 Thread Rob Hussey
On 9/13/07, Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Rob Hussey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/13/07, Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thanks for the numbers! Could you please also post the .config you used? Sure, .config for 2.6.23-rc1 and 2.6.23-rc6 attached. thx! If you've got

Re: [announce] CFS-devel, performance improvements

2007-09-13 Thread Rob Hussey
On 9/13/07, Rob Hussey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/13/07, Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Rob Hussey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/13/07, Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thanks for the numbers! Could you please also post the .config you used? Sure, .config

Re: [announce] CFS-devel, performance improvements

2007-09-13 Thread Rob Hussey
On 9/13/07, Rob Hussey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/13/07, Rob Hussey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/13/07, Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Rob Hussey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/13/07, Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thanks for the numbers! Could you please

Re: [announce] CFS-devel, performance improvements

2007-09-13 Thread Rob Hussey
On 9/13/07, Rob Hussey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bound to single core: ... hackbench 50 # rc1 rc6 cfs-devel 1 7.528 7.950 7.538 2 7.649 8.026 7.548 3 7.613 8.160 7.580 4 7.550 8.054 7.558 5 7.563 8.373 7.559 6 7.617 8.152 7.550 7 7.593 7.831 7.562 8 7.602 8.311 7.588 9

Re: [announce] CFS-devel, performance improvements

2007-09-11 Thread Rob Hussey
Hi Ingo, When compiling, I get: In file included from kernel/sched.c:794: kernel/sched_fair.c: In function 'task_new_fair': kernel/sched_fair.c:857: error: 'sysctl_sched_child_runs_first' undeclared (first use in this function) kernel/sched_fair.c:857: error: (Each undeclared identifier is

Re: [announce] CFS-devel, performance improvements

2007-09-11 Thread Rob Hussey
Hi Ingo, When compiling, I get: In file included from kernel/sched.c:794: kernel/sched_fair.c: In function 'task_new_fair': kernel/sched_fair.c:857: error: 'sysctl_sched_child_runs_first' undeclared (first use in this function) kernel/sched_fair.c:857: error: (Each undeclared identifier is