Re: [RFC][PATCH 00/18] sched: Reduce runqueue lock contention -v4

[Ingo Molnar]

* Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Latest version of the scary patches...

Just to make it easier for others to see the rationale behind this series, see the 
numbers and limitations listed below.

	Ingo

------------------------->
As measured using: http://oss.oracle.com/~mason/sembench.c

$ echo 4096 32000 64 128 > /proc/sys/kernel/sem
$ ./sembench -t 2048 -w 1900 -o 0

unpatched: run time 30 seconds 639476 worker burns per second
patched:   run time 30 seconds 847526 worker burns per second

Still need to sort out all the races marked XXX (non-trivial), and its
x86 only for the moment.

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