Re: [Lse-tech] Re: [PATCH][RFC] Proposal For A More Scalable Scheduler ...

Mike Kravetz (kravetz@us.ibm.com)
Fri, 2 Nov 2001 08:58:03 -0800

On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 07:20:36AM -0500, Hubertus Franke wrote:
>
> One more. Throughout our MQ evaluation, it was also true that
> the overall performance particularly for large thread counts was
> very sensitive to the goodness function, that why a na_goodness_local
> was introduced.
>

Correct, we did notice measurable differences in performance just
from the additional (unnecessary) checks in goodness. Unfortunately,
the current version of MQ has 3 different (but similar) variations
of the goodness function. This is UGLY, and I intend to clean this
up (without impacting performance of course :).

-- 
Mike
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