Re: PREEMPT_RT and I-PIPE: the numbers, part 4

2005-07-11 Thread Karim Yaghmour
Ingo Molnar wrote: > So why do your "ping flood" results show such difference? It really is > just another type of interrupt workload and has nothing special in it. ... > are you suggesting this is not really a benchmark but a way to test how > well a particular system withholds against extreme

Re: PREEMPT_RT and I-PIPE: the numbers, part 4

2005-07-11 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Karim Yaghmour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > With ping floods, as with other things, there is room for improvement, > but keep in mind that these are standard tests [...] the problem is that ping -f isnt what it used to be. If you are using a recent distribution with an updated ping utility,

Re: PREEMPT_RT and I-PIPE: the numbers, part 4

2005-07-10 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Kristian Benoit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > "plain" run: > > Measurements | Vanilla | preempt_rt| ipipe > ---+-++- > fork | 97us | 91us (-6%) | 101us (+4%) > mmap | 776us | 629us (-19

Re: PREEMPT_RT and I-PIPE: the numbers, part 4

2005-07-09 Thread hui
On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 10:22:07AM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: > PREEMPT_RT is not pre-tuned for every situation , but the bests > performance is achieved when the system is tuned. If any of these tests > rely on a low priority thread, then we just raise the priority and you > have better performan

Re: PREEMPT_RT and I-PIPE: the numbers, part 4

2005-07-09 Thread Daniel Walker
On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 09:19 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > (if your goal was to check how heavily external interrupts can influence > a PREEMPT_RT box, you should chrt the network IRQ thread to SCHED_OTHER > and renice it and softirq-net-rx and softirq-net-tx to nice +19.) > This is interesting.

Re: PREEMPT_RT and I-PIPE: the numbers, part 4

2005-07-09 Thread Karim Yaghmour
Can't type right anymore ... Karim Yaghmour wrote: > BTW, we've also released the latest very of the LRTBF we used to version Karim -- Author, Speaker, Developer, Consultant Pushing Embedded and Real-Time Linux Systems Beyond the Limits http://www.oper

Re: PREEMPT_RT and I-PIPE: the numbers, part 4

2005-07-09 Thread Karim Yaghmour
Karim Yaghmour wrote: > I would usually like very much to entertain this further, but we've > really busted all the time slots I had allocated to this work. So at > this time, we really think others should start publishing results. > After all, our results are no more authoritative than those > pu

Re: PREEMPT_RT and I-PIPE: the numbers, part 4

2005-07-09 Thread Karim Yaghmour
Ingo Molnar wrote: > yeah, they definitely have helped, and thanks for this round of testing > too! I'll explain the recent changes to PREEMPT_RT that resulted in > these speedups in another mail. Great, I'm very much looking forward to it. > Looking at your numbers i realized that the area wh

Re: PREEMPT_RT and I-PIPE: the numbers, part 4

2005-07-09 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Paul Rolland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "IRQ & hd" run: > > Measurements | Vanilla | preempt_rt| ipipe > > ---+-++- > > fork | 101us | 94us (-7%) | 103us (+2%) > > open/close | 2.9us | 2.9us (~)

Re: PREEMPT_RT and I-PIPE: the numbers, part 4

2005-07-09 Thread Karim Yaghmour
Paul Rolland wrote: >>mmap | 794us | 654us (+18%) | 822us (+4%) > > You mean -18%, not +18% I think. Doh ... too many numbers flying around ... yes, -18% :) Karim -- Author, Speaker, Developer, Consultant Pushing Embedded and Rea

Re: PREEMPT_RT and I-PIPE: the numbers, part 4

2005-07-09 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello, > "IRQ & hd" run: > Measurements | Vanilla | preempt_rt| ipipe > ---+-++- > fork | 101us | 94us (-7%) | 103us (+2%) > open/close | 2.9us | 2.9us (~) | 3.0us (+3%) > execve | 366

Re: PREEMPT_RT and I-PIPE: the numbers, part 4

2005-07-09 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Kristian Benoit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The numbers for PREEMPT_RT, however, have dramatically improved. All > the 50%+ overhead we saw earlier has now gone away completely. The > improvement is in fact nothing short of amazing. We were actually so > surprised that we went around lookin

Re: PREEMPT_RT and I-PIPE: the numbers, part 4

2005-07-08 Thread Karim Yaghmour
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