Re: [PATCH] Minor scheduler fix to get rid of skipping in xmms

[Con Kolivas]

On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 08:56, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Steven Pratt <slpratt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > For specjbb things are looking good from a throughput point of view.
> > ...
> > Volanomark, on the other hand is still off by quite a bit from test4
> > stock
>
> hmm, thanks.
>
> I'm not sure that volanomark is very representative of any real-world
> thing.
>
> > ...
> > If thre is any particular patch/tree combination you would like me to
> > try out, please let me know and I will see if I can get the results for
> > you.
>
> Could we please see test5 versus test5 plus Andrew's patch?
>
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.0-test4/2
>.6.0-test4-mm6/broken-out/sched-CAN_MIGRATE_TASK-fix.patch
>
> and if you have time, also test5 plus sched-CAN_MIGRATE_TASK-fix.patch plus
>
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.0-test4/2
>.6.0-test4-mm6/broken-out/sched-balance-fix-2.6.0-test3-mm3-A0.patch

Interestingly enough this drops the volano results the same proportion as 
Ingo's A3 patch. 11000 ->10400 throughput with same idle, but more 
schedule().

I've posted some results for test5 volano and test5-A0 here:
http://kernel.kolivas.org/2.5/volano

More testing underway.
Con

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