Re: [Lse-tech] Re: multi-queue scheduler update

2001-01-22 Thread Davide Libenzi
On Monday 22 January 2001 08:57, Hubertus Franke wrote: > Per popular demand. Here are a few numbers for small thread counts > running the sched_yield_test benchmark on a 2-way SMP with the following > characteristics. > > model name : Pentium III (Katmai) > stepping: 3 > cpu MHz

Re: [Lse-tech] Re: multi-queue scheduler update

2001-01-22 Thread Hubertus Franke
cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Lse-tech] Re: multi-queue scheduler update On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 04:52:25PM -0800, Mike Kravetz wrote: > was less than the number of processors. I'll give the tests a try > with a smaller number of threads. I'm also open to

Re: [Lse-tech] Re: multi-queue scheduler update

2001-01-19 Thread Davide Libenzi
On Friday 19 January 2001 15:23, Mike Kravetz wrote: > On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 02:03:06PM -0800, Davide Libenzi wrote: > > > > > voidoneatwork(int thr) > > > { > > > int i; > > > while (!start) /* don't disturb pthread_create() */ > > > usleep(

Re: [Lse-tech] Re: multi-queue scheduler update

2001-01-19 Thread Mike Kravetz
On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 02:03:06PM -0800, Davide Libenzi wrote: > > voidoneatwork(int thr) > > { > > int i; > > while (!start) /* don't disturb pthread_create() */ > > usleep(1); > > > > actthreads++; > > while (!stop) > > { > >

Re: [Lse-tech] Re: multi-queue scheduler update

2001-01-19 Thread Davide Libenzi
On Friday 19 January 2001 13:59, Mike Kravetz wrote: > On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 12:49:21PM -0800, Mike Kravetz showed his lack > > of internet slang understanding and wrote: > > It was my intention to post IIRC numbers for small thread counts today. > > However, the benchmark (not the system) seems

Re: [Lse-tech] Re: multi-queue scheduler update

2001-01-19 Thread Mike Kravetz
On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 12:49:21PM -0800, Mike Kravetz showed his lack of internet slang understanding and wrote: > > It was my intention to post IIRC numbers for small thread counts today. > However, the benchmark (not the system) seems to hang on occasion. This > occurs on both the unmodified

Re: [Lse-tech] Re: multi-queue scheduler update

2001-01-19 Thread Mike Kravetz
On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 05:34:35PM -0800, Mike Kravetz wrote: > On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 02:30:41AM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 04:52:25PM -0800, Mike Kravetz wrote: > > > was less than the number of processors. I'll give the tests a try > > > with a smaller number o

Re: [Lse-tech] Re: multi-queue scheduler update

2001-01-19 Thread Mike Kravetz
On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 03:12:11PM -0500, Mark Hahn wrote: > > incurred in the current implementation. To maintain existing > > scheduler behavior, we look at all CPU specific runqueues to find > > the highest priority (goodness) task in the system. Therefore, > > do you have cpu-affinity? the

Re: [Lse-tech] Re: multi-queue scheduler update

2001-01-19 Thread bert hubert
On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 01:03:05PM -0500, Hubertus Franke wrote: > > Mike sounds good, we will do all our measurements from now on with thread > count for the entire range from 1 to 16 and > then in power of twos upto 2048 and for maxcpus=1,2,4,6,8. Do you think > that 4096 is overkill ? So far t

Re: [Lse-tech] Re: multi-queue scheduler update

2001-01-19 Thread Hubertus Franke
ROTECTED]> on 01/19/2001 12:11:04 PM To: Hubertus Franke/Watson/IBM@IBMUS cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Lse-tech] Re: multi-queue scheduler update On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 10:47:06AM -0500, Hubertus Franke wrote: > What you can see from these numbers is that

Re: [Lse-tech] Re: multi-queue scheduler update

2001-01-19 Thread Mike Kravetz
On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 10:47:06AM -0500, Hubertus Franke wrote: > What you can see from these numbers is that MQ does an awesome job up to > 1024 threads. When measuring in the future, we will take from now on the > general concern about low number of threads into account. Your points are > well

Re: [Lse-tech] Re: multi-queue scheduler update

2001-01-19 Thread Tim Wright
date > > > > > > > > another thing that would be interesting is what is the overhead on UP or > > small (2-4 way) SMP machines > > > > David Lang > > > > On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Mike Kravetz wrote: > > > > > Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001

Re: [Lse-tech] Re: multi-queue scheduler update

2001-01-19 Thread Hubertus Franke
D]>, Andrea Arcangeli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Lse-tech] Re: multi-queue scheduler update You might want to rerun the tests with less cache heavy procs. The 2meg xeons you are using could distort things from what the average linux

Re: [Lse-tech] Re: multi-queue scheduler update

2001-01-19 Thread nick
914-945-2003(fax) 914-945-4425 TL: 862-2003 > > > > David Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@lists.sourceforge.net on 01/19/2001 > 11:06:37 AM > > Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > To: Mike Kravetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > cc: Andrea Arcangeli <[EMAIL P

Re: [Lse-tech] Re: multi-queue scheduler update

2001-01-19 Thread Hubertus Franke
[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@lists.sourceforge.net on 01/19/2001 11:06:37 AM Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mike Kravetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Andrea Arcangeli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Lse-tech] Re: multi-queue

Re: [Lse-tech] Re: multi-queue scheduler update

2001-01-19 Thread David Lang
TED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Lse-tech] Re: multi-queue scheduler update > > On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 01:26:16AM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 03:53:11PM -0800, Mike Kravetz wrote: > > > Here are som

Re: [Lse-tech] Re: multi-queue scheduler update

2001-01-19 Thread Hubertus Franke
gt;, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Lse-tech] Re: multi-queue scheduler update On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 01:26:16AM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > I remeber the O(1) scheduler from Davide Libenzi was beating the mainline O(N) > scheduler with over 7 tasks in

Re: [Lse-tech] Re: multi-queue scheduler update

2001-01-18 Thread Davide Libenzi
On Thursday 18 January 2001 17:39, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 04:52:25PM -0800, Mike Kravetz wrote: > > was less than the number of processors. I'll give the tests a try > > with a smaller number of threads. I'm also open to suggestions for > > OK! > > > what benchmarks/te

Re: [Lse-tech] Re: multi-queue scheduler update

2001-01-18 Thread Mike Kravetz
On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 02:30:41AM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 04:52:25PM -0800, Mike Kravetz wrote: > > was less than the number of processors. I'll give the tests a try > > with a smaller number of threads. I'm also open to suggestions for > > OK! > > > what benc

Re: [Lse-tech] Re: multi-queue scheduler update

2001-01-18 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 04:52:25PM -0800, Mike Kravetz wrote: > was less than the number of processors. I'll give the tests a try > with a smaller number of threads. I'm also open to suggestions for OK! > what benchmarks/test methods I could use for scheduler testing. If > you remember what p

Re: [Lse-tech] Re: multi-queue scheduler update

2001-01-18 Thread Andi Kleen
On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 01:26:16AM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > I remeber the O(1) scheduler from Davide Libenzi was beating the mainline O(N) > scheduler with over 7 tasks in the runqueue (actually I'm not sure if the > number was 7 but certainly it was under 10). So if you also use a O(1) >

Re: [Lse-tech] Re: multi-queue scheduler update

2001-01-18 Thread Mike Kravetz
On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 01:26:16AM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 03:53:11PM -0800, Mike Kravetz wrote: > > Here are some very preliminary numbers from sched_test_yield > > (which was previously posted to this (lse-tech) list by Bill > > Hartner). Tests were run on a sys