On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 06:20:35PM +0530, Raghavendra K T wrote: > I ran kernbench on 32 core (mx3850) machine with 3.8-rc2 base. > x base_3.8rc2 > + rik_backoff > N Min Max Median Avg Stddev > x 8 222.977 231.16 227.735 227.388 3.1512986 > + 8 218.75 232.347 229.1035 228.25425 4.2730225 > No difference proven at 95.0% confidence
I got similar results on smaller systems (1 socket, dual-cores and quad-cores) when running Rik's latest series, no big difference for good nor for worse, but I also think Rik's work is meant to address bigger systems with more cores contending for any given spinlock. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
