Re: [ck] Re: [ANNOUNCE] Staircase Deadline cpu scheduler version 0.45

2007-04-23 Thread Con Kolivas
On Monday 23 April 2007 00:35, Con Kolivas wrote: > On Monday 23 April 2007 00:22, Willy Tarreau wrote: > > X is still somewhat jerky, even > > at nice -19. I'm sure it happens when it's waiting in the other array. We > > should definitely manage to get rid of this if we want to ensure low > >

Re: [ck] Re: [ANNOUNCE] Staircase Deadline cpu scheduler version 0.45

2007-04-23 Thread Con Kolivas
On Monday 23 April 2007 00:35, Con Kolivas wrote: On Monday 23 April 2007 00:22, Willy Tarreau wrote: X is still somewhat jerky, even at nice -19. I'm sure it happens when it's waiting in the other array. We should definitely manage to get rid of this if we want to ensure low latency.

Re: [ck] Re: [ANNOUNCE] Staircase Deadline cpu scheduler version 0.45

2007-04-22 Thread Con Kolivas
On Monday 23 April 2007 00:27, Michael Gerdau wrote: > > Anyway the more important part is... Can you test this patch please? Dump > > all the other patches I sent you post 045. Michael, if you could test too > > please? > > Have it up running for 40 minutes now and my perljobs show a constant >

Re: [ck] Re: [ANNOUNCE] Staircase Deadline cpu scheduler version 0.45

2007-04-22 Thread Con Kolivas
On Sunday 22 April 2007 23:07, Willy Tarreau wrote: > On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 10:18:32PM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: > > On Sunday 22 April 2007 21:42, Con Kolivas wrote: > > > > Willy I'm still investigating the idle time and fluctuating load as a > > separate issue. > > OK. > > > Is it possible

Re: [ck] Re: [ANNOUNCE] Staircase Deadline cpu scheduler version 0.45

2007-04-22 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 10:18:32PM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: > On Sunday 22 April 2007 21:42, Con Kolivas wrote: > > Willy I'm still investigating the idle time and fluctuating load as a > separate > issue. OK. > Is it possible the multiple ocbench processes are naturally > synchronising and

Re: [ck] Re: [ANNOUNCE] Staircase Deadline cpu scheduler version 0.45

2007-04-22 Thread Con Kolivas
On Monday 23 April 2007 00:22, Willy Tarreau wrote: > On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 10:18:32PM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: > > On Sunday 22 April 2007 21:42, Con Kolivas wrote: > > > > Willy I'm still investigating the idle time and fluctuating load as a > > separate issue. Is it possible the multiple

Re: [ck] Re: [ANNOUNCE] Staircase Deadline cpu scheduler version 0.45

2007-04-22 Thread Michael Gerdau
> Anyway the more important part is... Can you test this patch please? Dump > all the other patches I sent you post 045. Michael, if you could test too > please? Have it up running for 40 minutes now and my perljobs show a constant cpu utilization of 100/50/50 in top most of the time. When the

Re: [ck] Re: [ANNOUNCE] Staircase Deadline cpu scheduler version 0.45

2007-04-22 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 10:18:32PM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: > On Sunday 22 April 2007 21:42, Con Kolivas wrote: > > Willy I'm still investigating the idle time and fluctuating load as a > separate > issue. Is it possible the multiple ocbench processes are naturally > synchronising and

Re: [ck] Re: [ANNOUNCE] Staircase Deadline cpu scheduler version 0.45

2007-04-22 Thread Con Kolivas
On Sunday 22 April 2007 21:42, Con Kolivas wrote: Willy I'm still investigating the idle time and fluctuating load as a separate issue. Is it possible the multiple ocbench processes are naturally synchronising and desynchronising and choosing to sleep and/or run at the same time? I can remove

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Staircase Deadline cpu scheduler version 0.45

2007-04-22 Thread Con Kolivas
On Sunday 22 April 2007 19:14, Willy Tarreau wrote: > On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 06:53:58PM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: > > On Sunday 22 April 2007 18:06, Willy Tarreau wrote: > > > On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 05:31:58PM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: > > > > On Sunday 22 April 2007 17:27, Con Kolivas wrote: >

Re: [ck] [ANNOUNCE] Staircase Deadline cpu scheduler version 0.45

2007-04-22 Thread Con Kolivas
On Sunday 22 April 2007 18:02, Michael Gerdau wrote: > Hi Con, > > I now have 2.6.21-rc7-sd-0.45 running on my Intel Core2 T7600 2.33 > machine and there is something I don't understand. > > For testing I have a Perl script that does some numbercrunching > and runs a couple of hours. > > I have

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Staircase Deadline cpu scheduler version 0.45

2007-04-22 Thread Con Kolivas
On Sunday 22 April 2007 19:14, Willy Tarreau wrote: > On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 06:53:58PM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: > > On Sunday 22 April 2007 18:06, Willy Tarreau wrote: > > > On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 05:31:58PM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: > > > > On Sunday 22 April 2007 17:27, Con Kolivas wrote: >

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Staircase Deadline cpu scheduler version 0.45

2007-04-22 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 06:53:58PM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: > On Sunday 22 April 2007 18:06, Willy Tarreau wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 05:31:58PM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: > > > On Sunday 22 April 2007 17:27, Con Kolivas wrote: > > > > On Sunday 22 April 2007 17:00, Willy Tarreau wrote: >

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Staircase Deadline cpu scheduler version 0.45

2007-04-22 Thread Con Kolivas
On Sunday 22 April 2007 18:06, Willy Tarreau wrote: > On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 05:31:58PM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: > > On Sunday 22 April 2007 17:27, Con Kolivas wrote: > > > On Sunday 22 April 2007 17:00, Willy Tarreau wrote: > > > > On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 02:41:48PM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: >

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Staircase Deadline cpu scheduler version 0.45

2007-04-22 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 05:31:58PM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: > On Sunday 22 April 2007 17:27, Con Kolivas wrote: > > On Sunday 22 April 2007 17:00, Willy Tarreau wrote: > > > On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 02:41:48PM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: > > > > A significant bugfix for SMP balancing was just posted

Re: [ck] [ANNOUNCE] Staircase Deadline cpu scheduler version 0.45

2007-04-22 Thread Michael Gerdau
Hi Con, I now have 2.6.21-rc7-sd-0.45 running on my Intel Core2 T7600 2.33 machine and there is something I don't understand. For testing I have a Perl script that does some numbercrunching and runs a couple of hours. I have two scenarios a) start the job via loops in a shellscript b) start the

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Staircase Deadline cpu scheduler version 0.45

2007-04-22 Thread Con Kolivas
On Sunday 22 April 2007 17:27, Con Kolivas wrote: > On Sunday 22 April 2007 17:00, Willy Tarreau wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 02:41:48PM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: > > > A significant bugfix for SMP balancing was just posted for the > > > staircase deadline cpu scheduler which improves

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Staircase Deadline cpu scheduler version 0.45

2007-04-22 Thread Con Kolivas
On Sunday 22 April 2007 17:00, Willy Tarreau wrote: > On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 02:41:48PM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: > > A significant bugfix for SMP balancing was just posted for the staircase > > deadline cpu scheduler which improves behaviour dramatically on any SMP > > machine. > > > > Thanks to

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Staircase Deadline cpu scheduler version 0.45

2007-04-22 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 02:41:48PM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: > A significant bugfix for SMP balancing was just posted for the staircase > deadline cpu scheduler which improves behaviour dramatically on any SMP > machine. > > Thanks to Willy Tarreau for noticing likely fault point. > > Also

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Staircase Deadline cpu scheduler version 0.45

2007-04-22 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 02:41:48PM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: A significant bugfix for SMP balancing was just posted for the staircase deadline cpu scheduler which improves behaviour dramatically on any SMP machine. Thanks to Willy Tarreau for noticing likely fault point. Also requested

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Staircase Deadline cpu scheduler version 0.45

2007-04-22 Thread Con Kolivas
On Sunday 22 April 2007 17:00, Willy Tarreau wrote: On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 02:41:48PM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: A significant bugfix for SMP balancing was just posted for the staircase deadline cpu scheduler which improves behaviour dramatically on any SMP machine. Thanks to Willy

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Staircase Deadline cpu scheduler version 0.45

2007-04-22 Thread Con Kolivas
On Sunday 22 April 2007 17:27, Con Kolivas wrote: On Sunday 22 April 2007 17:00, Willy Tarreau wrote: On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 02:41:48PM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: A significant bugfix for SMP balancing was just posted for the staircase deadline cpu scheduler which improves behaviour

Re: [ck] [ANNOUNCE] Staircase Deadline cpu scheduler version 0.45

2007-04-22 Thread Michael Gerdau
Hi Con, I now have 2.6.21-rc7-sd-0.45 running on my Intel Core2 T7600 2.33 machine and there is something I don't understand. For testing I have a Perl script that does some numbercrunching and runs a couple of hours. I have two scenarios a) start the job via loops in a shellscript b) start the

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Staircase Deadline cpu scheduler version 0.45

2007-04-22 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 05:31:58PM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: On Sunday 22 April 2007 17:27, Con Kolivas wrote: On Sunday 22 April 2007 17:00, Willy Tarreau wrote: On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 02:41:48PM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: A significant bugfix for SMP balancing was just posted for the

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Staircase Deadline cpu scheduler version 0.45

2007-04-22 Thread Con Kolivas
On Sunday 22 April 2007 18:06, Willy Tarreau wrote: On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 05:31:58PM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: On Sunday 22 April 2007 17:27, Con Kolivas wrote: On Sunday 22 April 2007 17:00, Willy Tarreau wrote: On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 02:41:48PM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: A

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Staircase Deadline cpu scheduler version 0.45

2007-04-22 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 06:53:58PM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: On Sunday 22 April 2007 18:06, Willy Tarreau wrote: On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 05:31:58PM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: On Sunday 22 April 2007 17:27, Con Kolivas wrote: On Sunday 22 April 2007 17:00, Willy Tarreau wrote: On Sun,

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Staircase Deadline cpu scheduler version 0.45

2007-04-22 Thread Con Kolivas
On Sunday 22 April 2007 19:14, Willy Tarreau wrote: On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 06:53:58PM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: On Sunday 22 April 2007 18:06, Willy Tarreau wrote: On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 05:31:58PM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: On Sunday 22 April 2007 17:27, Con Kolivas wrote: On

Re: [ck] [ANNOUNCE] Staircase Deadline cpu scheduler version 0.45

2007-04-22 Thread Con Kolivas
On Sunday 22 April 2007 18:02, Michael Gerdau wrote: Hi Con, I now have 2.6.21-rc7-sd-0.45 running on my Intel Core2 T7600 2.33 machine and there is something I don't understand. For testing I have a Perl script that does some numbercrunching and runs a couple of hours. I have two

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Staircase Deadline cpu scheduler version 0.45

2007-04-22 Thread Con Kolivas
On Sunday 22 April 2007 19:14, Willy Tarreau wrote: On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 06:53:58PM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: On Sunday 22 April 2007 18:06, Willy Tarreau wrote: On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 05:31:58PM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: On Sunday 22 April 2007 17:27, Con Kolivas wrote: On

Re: [ck] Re: [ANNOUNCE] Staircase Deadline cpu scheduler version 0.45

2007-04-22 Thread Con Kolivas
On Sunday 22 April 2007 21:42, Con Kolivas wrote: Willy I'm still investigating the idle time and fluctuating load as a separate issue. Is it possible the multiple ocbench processes are naturally synchronising and desynchronising and choosing to sleep and/or run at the same time? I can remove

Re: [ck] Re: [ANNOUNCE] Staircase Deadline cpu scheduler version 0.45

2007-04-22 Thread Michael Gerdau
Anyway the more important part is... Can you test this patch please? Dump all the other patches I sent you post 045. Michael, if you could test too please? Have it up running for 40 minutes now and my perljobs show a constant cpu utilization of 100/50/50 in top most of the time. When the 100%

Re: [ck] Re: [ANNOUNCE] Staircase Deadline cpu scheduler version 0.45

2007-04-22 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 10:18:32PM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: On Sunday 22 April 2007 21:42, Con Kolivas wrote: Willy I'm still investigating the idle time and fluctuating load as a separate issue. Is it possible the multiple ocbench processes are naturally synchronising and

Re: [ck] Re: [ANNOUNCE] Staircase Deadline cpu scheduler version 0.45

2007-04-22 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 10:18:32PM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: On Sunday 22 April 2007 21:42, Con Kolivas wrote: Willy I'm still investigating the idle time and fluctuating load as a separate issue. OK. Is it possible the multiple ocbench processes are naturally synchronising and

Re: [ck] Re: [ANNOUNCE] Staircase Deadline cpu scheduler version 0.45

2007-04-22 Thread Con Kolivas
On Monday 23 April 2007 00:27, Michael Gerdau wrote: Anyway the more important part is... Can you test this patch please? Dump all the other patches I sent you post 045. Michael, if you could test too please? Have it up running for 40 minutes now and my perljobs show a constant cpu

Re: [ck] Re: [ANNOUNCE] Staircase Deadline cpu scheduler version 0.45

2007-04-22 Thread Con Kolivas
On Monday 23 April 2007 00:22, Willy Tarreau wrote: On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 10:18:32PM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: On Sunday 22 April 2007 21:42, Con Kolivas wrote: Willy I'm still investigating the idle time and fluctuating load as a separate issue. Is it possible the multiple ocbench

Re: [ck] Re: [ANNOUNCE] Staircase Deadline cpu scheduler version 0.45

2007-04-22 Thread Con Kolivas
On Sunday 22 April 2007 23:07, Willy Tarreau wrote: On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 10:18:32PM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: On Sunday 22 April 2007 21:42, Con Kolivas wrote: Willy I'm still investigating the idle time and fluctuating load as a separate issue. OK. Is it possible the multiple

[ANNOUNCE] Staircase Deadline cpu scheduler version 0.45

2007-04-21 Thread Con Kolivas
A significant bugfix for SMP balancing was just posted for the staircase deadline cpu scheduler which improves behaviour dramatically on any SMP machine. Thanks to Willy Tarreau for noticing likely fault point. Also requested was a version in the Makefile so this version of the patch adds

[ANNOUNCE] Staircase Deadline cpu scheduler version 0.45

2007-04-21 Thread Con Kolivas
A significant bugfix for SMP balancing was just posted for the staircase deadline cpu scheduler which improves behaviour dramatically on any SMP machine. Thanks to Willy Tarreau for noticing likely fault point. Also requested was a version in the Makefile so this version of the patch adds