Re: [PATCH] [PERFORMANCE RESULTS] priority preemption in Linux

[Ingo Molnar]

On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Bill Hartner wrote:

> kernel    preemption     conforming     percent
>           threshold      connections    improvement
> ======    ===========    ===========    ===========
> 
> 2.5.33    0 (default)    2906           baseline
> 2.5.33    40             2990           2.9 %
> 
> Table 3 shows that reducing priority preemption improved the
> number of conforming connections by 2.9 %.

actually, the more interesting metric is the ops/sec value - how did that
change? Conforming connections is a cutoff value and the real improvement
might be bigger than that.

	Ingo