Re: sched: Avoid SMT siblings in select_idle_sibling() if possible

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Thu, 2012-03-22 at 21:02 +0530, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote:
> 
> Now the more interesting VM scenario:
> 
More interesting for whoem? I still think virt is an utter waste of
time ;-)

>                 tip     tip + patch
> 
> volano          1       1.29   (29% improvement)
> sysbench [n3]   1       2      (100% improvement)
> tbench 1 [n4]   1       1.07   (7% improvement)
> tbench 8 [n5]   1       1.26   (26% improvement)
> httperf  [n6]   1       1.05   (5% improvement)
> Trade           1       1.31   (31% improvement) 

That smells like there's more to the story, a 100% improvement is too
much..
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/