Re: pluggable scheduler thread (was Re: Volanomark slows by 80% under CFS)

2007-07-30 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 05:07:46PM -0400, Chris Snook wrote: > [..] It's spending a lot less time in %sys despite the > higher context switches, [..] The workload takes 40% more so you've to add up that additional 40% too into your math. "A lot less time" sounds an overstatement to me. Also you'

Re: pluggable scheduler thread (was Re: Volanomark slows by 80% under CFS)

2007-07-30 Thread Chris Snook
Tim Chen wrote: On Sat, 2007-07-28 at 02:51 -0400, Chris Snook wrote: Tim -- Since you're already set up to do this benchmarking, would you mind varying the parameters a bit and collecting vmstat data? If you want to run oprofile too, that wouldn't hurt. Here's the vmstat data. The nu

Re: pluggable scheduler thread (was Re: Volanomark slows by 80% under CFS)

2007-07-30 Thread Tim Chen
On Sat, 2007-07-28 at 02:51 -0400, Chris Snook wrote: > > Tim -- > > Since you're already set up to do this benchmarking, would you mind > varying the parameters a bit and collecting vmstat data? If you want to > run oprofile too, that wouldn't hurt. > Here's the vmstat data. The num

Re: pluggable scheduler thread (was Re: Volanomark slows by 80% under CFS)

2007-07-27 Thread Chris Snook
Andrea Arcangeli wrote: On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 11:43:23PM -0400, Chris Snook wrote: I'm pretty sure the point of posting a patch that triples CFS performance on a certain benchmark and arguably improves the semantics of sched_yield was to improve CFS. You have a point, but it is a point for a

Re: pluggable scheduler thread (was Re: Volanomark slows by 80% under CFS)

2007-07-27 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 11:43:23PM -0400, Chris Snook wrote: > I'm pretty sure the point of posting a patch that triples CFS performance > on a certain benchmark and arguably improves the semantics of sched_yield > was to improve CFS. You have a point, but it is a point for a different > thread