On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 18:24:20 +1100 Nick Piggin wrote: > > > Nick Piggin wrote: > > > http://www.kerneltrap.org/~npiggin/w26/ > > Against 2.6.0-test11 > > > Oh, this patchset also (mostly) cures my pet hate for the > last few months: VolanoMark on the NUMA. > > http://www.kerneltrap.org/~npiggin/w26/vmark.html > > The "average" plot for w26 I think is a little misleading because > it got an unlucky result on the second last point making it look > like its has a downward curve. It is usually more linear with a > sharp downward spike at 150 rooms like the "maximum" plot. > > Don't ask me why it runs out of steam at 150 rooms. hackbench does > something similar. I think it might be due to some resource running > short, or a scalability problem somewhere else. i didn't had the time to apply the patches (w26 and C1 from ingo ) on a vanilla t11, but i merged them with the wli-2,btw this one has really put my box on steroids ;) . none of them finished a hackbench 320 run, the OOM killed all of my agetty's logging me out. the box is a 1way p4(HT) 1gb of ram and no swap heh. hackbench: sched-rollup-w26 sched-SMT-2.6.0-test11-C1 50 4.839 50 5.200 100 9.415 100 10.090 150 14.469 150 14.764 time tar -xvjpf linux-2.6.0-test11.tar.bz2: sched-rollup-w26 sched-SMT-2.6.0-test11-C1 real 43.396 real 23.136 user 27.608 user 20.700 sys 4.039 sys 4.344