[PATCH] vfs: Trivial libfs.c warning formatting

2013-05-27 Thread Colin Fowler
From: Colin Fowler Kernel Version: 3.10-rc3. Description: Add a space between "array" and "with" in simple_fill_super() warning message Signed-off-by: Colin Fowler --- --- linux-3.10-rc3/fs/libfs.c.orig 2013-05-27 14:48:36.741568310 +0100 +++ linux-3.10-rc3/fs/libfs.

[PATCH] vfs: Trivial libfs.c warning formatting

2013-05-27 Thread Colin Fowler
From: Colin Fowler elethio...@gmail.com Kernel Version: 3.10-rc3. Description: Add a space between array and with in simple_fill_super() warning message Signed-off-by: Colin Fowler elethio...@gmail.com --- --- linux-3.10-rc3/fs/libfs.c.orig 2013-05-27 14:48:36.741568310 +0100 +++ linux-3.10

Re: Performance loss 2.6.22->22.6.23->2.6.24-rc7 on CPU intensive benchmark on 8 Core Xeon

2008-01-16 Thread Colin Fowler
> there are a handful of 'scheduler feature bits' in > /proc/sys/kernel/sched_features: > > enum { > SCHED_FEAT_NEW_FAIR_SLEEPERS= 1, > SCHED_FEAT_WAKEUP_PREEMPT = 2, > SCHED_FEAT_START_DEBIT = 4, > SCHED_FEAT_TREE_AVG = 8, >

Re: Performance loss 2.6.22->22.6.23->2.6.24-rc7 on CPU intensive benchmark on 8 Core Xeon

2008-01-16 Thread Colin Fowler
days. regards, Colin On Jan 16, 2008 4:19 PM, Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * Colin Fowler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi Ingo, I'll need to convince my supervisor first if I can release a > > binary. Technically anythin glike this needs t

Re: Performance loss 2.6.22->22.6.23->2.6.24-rc7 on CPU intensive benchmark on 8 Core Xeon

2008-01-16 Thread Colin Fowler
AIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * Colin Fowler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > and context-switches 45K times a second. Do you know what is going > > > on there? I thought ray-tracing is something that can be > > > parallelized pretty effic

Re: Performance loss 2.6.22-22.6.23-2.6.24-rc7 on CPU intensive benchmark on 8 Core Xeon

2008-01-16 Thread Colin Fowler
: * Colin Fowler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: and context-switches 45K times a second. Do you know what is going on there? I thought ray-tracing is something that can be parallelized pretty efficiently, without having to contend and schedule too much. This is a RTRT (real-time ray

Re: Performance loss 2.6.22-22.6.23-2.6.24-rc7 on CPU intensive benchmark on 8 Core Xeon

2008-01-16 Thread Colin Fowler
days. regards, Colin On Jan 16, 2008 4:19 PM, Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Colin Fowler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Ingo, I'll need to convince my supervisor first if I can release a binary. Technically anythin glike this needs to go through our University's innovations

Re: Performance loss 2.6.22-22.6.23-2.6.24-rc7 on CPU intensive benchmark on 8 Core Xeon

2008-01-16 Thread Colin Fowler
there are a handful of 'scheduler feature bits' in /proc/sys/kernel/sched_features: enum { SCHED_FEAT_NEW_FAIR_SLEEPERS= 1, SCHED_FEAT_WAKEUP_PREEMPT = 2, SCHED_FEAT_START_DEBIT = 4, SCHED_FEAT_TREE_AVG = 8,

Re: Performance loss 2.6.22->22.6.23->2.6.24-rc7 on CPU intensive benchmark on 8 Core Xeon

2008-01-15 Thread Colin Fowler
Hi Ingo, I'll get the results tomorrow as I'm now out of the office, but I can perhaps answer some of your queries now. On Jan 15, 2008 10:06 PM, Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hm, the system has considerable idle time left: > > r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in

Re: Performance loss 2.6.22->22.6.23->2.6.24-rc7 on CPU intensive benchmark on 8 Core Xeon

2008-01-15 Thread Colin Fowler
These data may be much better for you. It's a single 15 second data collection run only when the actual ray-tracing is happening. These data do not therefore cover the data structure building phase. http://vangogh.cs.tcd.ie/fowler/cfs2/ Colin On Jan 14, 2008 10:42 PM, Colin Fowler <[EM

Re: Performance loss 2.6.22-22.6.23-2.6.24-rc7 on CPU intensive benchmark on 8 Core Xeon

2008-01-15 Thread Colin Fowler
These data may be much better for you. It's a single 15 second data collection run only when the actual ray-tracing is happening. These data do not therefore cover the data structure building phase. http://vangogh.cs.tcd.ie/fowler/cfs2/ Colin On Jan 14, 2008 10:42 PM, Colin Fowler [EMAIL

Re: Performance loss 2.6.22-22.6.23-2.6.24-rc7 on CPU intensive benchmark on 8 Core Xeon

2008-01-15 Thread Colin Fowler
Hi Ingo, I'll get the results tomorrow as I'm now out of the office, but I can perhaps answer some of your queries now. On Jan 15, 2008 10:06 PM, Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hm, the system has considerable idle time left: r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in

Re: Performance loss 2.6.22->22.6.23->2.6.24-rc7 on CPU intensive benchmark on 8 Core Xeon

2008-01-14 Thread Colin Fowler
of the benchmark I get my timings from ( I use RDTSC before and after the render segment). The majority of the overall time taken for a run is therefore data structure building. I do not time this. Colin. On Jan 14, 2008 6:55 PM, Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * Colin Fo

Re: Performance loss 2.6.22->22.6.23->2.6.24-rc7 on CPU intensive benchmark on 8 Core Xeon

2008-01-14 Thread Colin Fowler
Forgot to add that the results are at http://vangogh.cs.tcd.ie/fowler/cfs/ On Jan 14, 2008 10:42 PM, Colin Fowler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Ingo, thanks for the reply. > > Modifying /proc/sys/kernel/sched_latency_ns to be double may have in > fact made things slightly wo

Performance loss 2.6.22->22.6.23->2.6.24-rc7 on CPU intensive benchmark on 8 Core Xeon

2008-01-14 Thread Colin Fowler
Please CC me as I'm not subscribed. I have (what is to me) a strange and very repeatable slowdown for a CPU intensive benchmark on my system on newer kernels. Hardware : Dell Precision 470. CPU 2x2.0GHz Quad Core Xeon E5335 CPUs Memory 4GB ECC RAM. OS Ubuntu x86_64 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) Compiler

Performance loss 2.6.22-22.6.23-2.6.24-rc7 on CPU intensive benchmark on 8 Core Xeon

2008-01-14 Thread Colin Fowler
Please CC me as I'm not subscribed. I have (what is to me) a strange and very repeatable slowdown for a CPU intensive benchmark on my system on newer kernels. Hardware : Dell Precision 470. CPU 2x2.0GHz Quad Core Xeon E5335 CPUs Memory 4GB ECC RAM. OS Ubuntu x86_64 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) Compiler

Re: Performance loss 2.6.22-22.6.23-2.6.24-rc7 on CPU intensive benchmark on 8 Core Xeon

2008-01-14 Thread Colin Fowler
of the benchmark I get my timings from ( I use RDTSC before and after the render segment). The majority of the overall time taken for a run is therefore data structure building. I do not time this. Colin. On Jan 14, 2008 6:55 PM, Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Colin Fowler [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Performance loss 2.6.22-22.6.23-2.6.24-rc7 on CPU intensive benchmark on 8 Core Xeon

2008-01-14 Thread Colin Fowler
Forgot to add that the results are at http://vangogh.cs.tcd.ie/fowler/cfs/ On Jan 14, 2008 10:42 PM, Colin Fowler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Ingo, thanks for the reply. Modifying /proc/sys/kernel/sched_latency_ns to be double may have in fact made things slightly worse. I used 24-rc7 Your