Re: [REPORT] cfs-v5 vs sd-0.46

[Michael Gerdau]

> oh, you are writing the number-cruncher?

Yep.

> In general the 'best'  
> performance metrics for scheduler validation are the ones where you have 
> immediate feedback: i.e. some ops/sec (or ops per minute) value in some 
> readily accessible place, or some "milliseconds-per-100,000 ops" type of 
> metric - whichever lends itself better to the workload at hand.

I'll have to see whether that works out. I don't have an easily
available ops/sec but I guess I could create something similar.

> If you  
> measure time then the best is to use long long and nanoseconds and the 
> monotonic clocksource:

[snip]
Thanks, I will implement that, for Linux anyway.

> Plus an absolute metric of "the whole workload took X.Y seconds" is 
> useful too.

That's the easiest to come by and is already available.

Best,
Michael
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