Re: [patch] scheduler cache affinity improvement in 2.4 kernels by Ingo

[Shailabh Nagar]

Hi Partha,

Sorry to see the "shoot-the-messenger" replies to your posting. I've yet to
understand why lmbench is relevant
in an SMP setting.....

Shailabh Nagar
Enterprise Linux Group, IBM TJ Watson Research Center
[phone], T/L 862 2851

Partha Narayanan/Austin/IBM@[e-mail] on 11/17/2001 11:58:05 AM

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      Ingo Molnar

Folks,

The above patch for scheduler cache affinity improvement in 2.4 kernels by
Ingo Molnar was applied to 2.4.14 kernel;
a run of Volano LoopBack BenchMark on a Netfinity 8500 R 1MB 700 MHz PIII
1MB-L2 cache and 1GB memory support produced
the following results:

     The UniProcessor throughput  was reduced by 40%.
     The 4-way throughput showed a very slight degradation of 1%.
     The 8-way throughput showed an improvemnet of 10%.

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Thanks,
Partha