Re: hackbench: 2.6.12-rc6 vs. 2.6.12-rc6-RT-V0.7.48-06

From: Esben Nielsen
Date: Fri Jun 10 2005 - 16:12:10 EST


On Fri, 10 Jun 2005, Gabor MICSKO wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I made some test with 2.6.12-rc6-RT-V0.7.48-06 and 2.6.12-rc6 kernels.
> Here is my results:
>
> 2.6.12-rc6-RT-V0.7.48-0 2.6.12-rc6
> ------------------------------------ ----------------
>
> ./hackbench 30
>
> 1st run: 6.139 5.110
> 2nd run: 6.119 4.946
> 3rd run: 6.135 5.168
>
> ./hackbench 100
>
> 1st run: 23.254 16.603
> 2nd run: 23.481 16.478
> 3rd run: 23.790 16.387
>
> ./hackbench 130
>
> 1st run: 33.395 21.731
> 2nd run: 32.652 21.821
> 3rd run: 32.517 21.698
>
> ./hackbench 150
>
> 1st run: 89.100 47.862
> 2nd run: 39.308 25.121
> 3rd run: 90.157 25.125
>
> It seems to me 2.6.12-rc faster than 2.6.12-rc6-RT-V0.7.48-0. It is
> normal?

Depends on the configuration options. If you used the same configs they
should be the same but if you activated PREEMPT_RT it should slow things
down due to the overhead of irq-threading and mutexes instead of
spinlocks - although I am surprised the factor is _that_ big!

Esben

>
> thanks,
>
> -
> mg
>

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