Re: [Linstab] Hackbench STP Results History for 2.5 mm/2.6 mm

[Mark Wong]

On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 05:07:54PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> markw@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> >
> > More history from hackbench from STP from the 2.5 and 2.6 mm kernels.
> 
> This looks great, but tragically incomprehensible.
> 
> Could someone please provide some interpretation, tell us what hackbench
> is, and what all the numbers mean?
> 
> Do we rock or do we suck?

Sorry, I was a bit hasty.

Hackbench is a test from Rusty Russel that's intended to test the scalability
of the scheduler.  The results I gathered are from a test where 100 processes
are started to send a message to another set of 100 processes.  This is
repeated at least a few times and the time taken to complete each instance
is averaged.  Anyone feel free to correct me as I learned this second hand.

The general trend in the metric indicates everything has been improving, so I
think we rock.
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