Re: 2.6.5-rc3-mm4 x86_64 sched domains patch

[Andi Kleen]

On Thu, 15 Apr 2004 00:14:19 +1000
Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Andi Kleen wrote:
> > On Thu, 08 Apr 2004 16:22:09 -0700
> > Darren Hart <dvhltc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >>This patch is intended as a quick fix for the x86_64 problem, and
> > 
> > 
> > Ingo's latest tweaks seemed to already cure STREAM, but some more
> > tuning is probably a good idea agreed.
> > 
> 
> Where is STREAM versus other kernels? You said you got
> best performance on a custom 2.4 kernel. Do we match
> that?

Differences were below the measurement error, so I consider it fixed.

> 
> How is your performance for other things? I recall you
> may have told me about some other (smaller) issues you
> were seeing?

I haven't tested much yet.  I can compare kernel compilations later.

Also I'm still somewhat hoping that the IBM benchmark team will take a stab at 
it - they are much better than me at running many tests.

-Andi
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