* 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://www.healthcarelinen.com/misc/benchmarks/BOUND_NOPREEMPT_pipe-test_benchmark.png
btw., it's likely that if you turn off CONFIG_PREEMPT for .21 and for
.22-ck1 they'll improve a bit too - so it's not fair to put the .23
!PREEMPT numbers on the graph as the PREEMPT numbers of the other
kernels. (it shows the .23 scheduler being faster than it really is)
> 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 the
> numbers for hackbench are more erratic (which isn't saying much since
> the original numbers gave nearly a straight line). I'm still willing
> to try out any more ideas.
the pipe-test behavior looks like an outlier. !PREEMPT only removes code
(which makes the code faster), so this could be a cache layout artifact.
(or perhaps we preempt at a different point which is disadvantageous to
caching?) Pipe-test is equivalent to "lat_ctx -s 0 2" so if there was a
genuine slowdown it would show up in the lat_ctx graph - but the graph
shows a speedup.
Ingo
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