Re: [Announce] [patch] Modular Scheduler Core and Completely Fair Scheduler [CFS]

[Ingo Molnar]

* Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> All of my testing has been on desktop machines, although in most cases 
> they were really loaded desktops which had load avg 10..100 from time 
> to time, and none were low memory machines. Up to CFS v3 I thought 
> nicksched was my winner, now CFSv3 looks better, by not having 
> stumbles under stupid loads.

nice! I hope CFSv4 kept that good tradition too ;)

> I have not tested:
>   1 - server loads, nntp, smtp, etc
>   2 - low memory machines
>   3 - uniprocessor systems
> 
> I think this should be done before drawing conclusions. Or if someone 
> has tried this, perhaps they would report what they saw. People are 
> talking about smoothness, but not how many pages per second come out 
> of their overloaded web server.

i tested heavily swapping systems. (make -j50 workloads easily trigger 
that) I also tested UP systems and a handful of SMP systems. I have also 
tested massive_intr.c which i believe is an indicator of how fairly CPU 
time is distributed between partly sleeping partly running server 
threads. But i very much agree that diverse feedback is sought and 
welcome, both from those who are happy with the current scheduler and 
those who are unhappy about it.

	Ingo
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