On Sun, 27 Feb 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> Where can I find dbench? It would be interesting for me to see at least
> the kind of workload that it generates on the machine. Also which
> blockdevice are you using?
you can find Andrew Tridgell's dbench at:
ftp://samba.org/pub/tridge/dbench/
> Just another idea: another thing that may make a difference are the
> smp scheduler changes I did in the latest 2.3.4x. You can try to
> backout this patch:
this could explain the lat_ctx slowdown. The 2.3.43 idle-selection changes
are trivial enough but getting idle thread selection right can be tricky.
Just getting 'good feedback' is not enough when changing the scheduler,
lat_ctx and other micro-benchmarks are important and depend on scheduling
heavily. Could you check wether your patch causes the lat_ctx slowdown
Dimitris noticed?
i believe we have two problems and they are unrelated: lat_ctx
micro-slowdown and IO performance slowdown.
-- mingo
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