From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261895AbTKCErU (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Nov 2003 23:47:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261893AbTKCErU (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Nov 2003 23:47:20 -0500 Received: from mail-08.iinet.net.au ([203.59.3.40]:23475 "HELO mail.iinet.net.au") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261916AbTKCErP (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Nov 2003 23:47:15 -0500 Message-ID: <3FA5DDCF.5030700@cyberone.com.au> Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2003 15:47:11 +1100 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030827 Debian/1.4-3 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rhino , linux-kernel Subject: Re: Nick's scheduler v17a References: <3F913704.5040707@cyberone.com.au> <3FA08853.5050402@cyberone.com.au> <20031031185740.7c152d8b.rhino9@terra.com.br> In-Reply-To: <20031031185740.7c152d8b.rhino9@terra.com.br> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Rhino wrote: >On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 14:41:07 +1100 >Nick Piggin wrote: > > >>http://www.kerneltrap.org/~npiggin/v17a/ >> >>More balancing fixes. I also incorporated some of Andrew Theurer's >>ideas. I'm generally getting good numbers now, but using fairly >>synthetic benchmarks. >> >>Now would be a good time to test if anyone is interested. Thanks. >> > >well i didn't have the time to make extensive tests yet, but the behaviour improved a lot since v16, >and *looks* quite better compared to test9 on a 2 way xeon p4 with hyperthreading enabled, >seeing 4 cpu's. > >when i get back home, I'll try to make a few benchmarks. > That would be nice. There still isn't a lot of work done in the HT department, but something simple and easy like the shared runqueues patch might be reasonable for 2.6.