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

[Nick Piggin]

Con Kolivas wrote:

> On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 12:16, Con Kolivas wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 12:10, Con Kolivas wrote:
> >
> > > 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-tes
> > > > t4 /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-tes
> > > > t4 /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.
> > Correction sorry: These changes were due to
> > sched-CAN_MIGRATE_TASK-fix.patch and the test results say
> > volano-results-2.6.0-test5-A0-*
>
> Further testing shows the patch: sched-balance-fix-2.6.0-test3-mm3-A0.patch to 
> have no effect on volano results by itself. 

Hi Con,
Any chance you could give this
http://www.kerneltrap.org/~npiggin/v14/sched-rollup-nopolicy-v14.gz
a try? It should apply against test5.


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