Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 07 Feb 2006 15:36:14 -0800 | From | Martin Bligh <> | Subject | Re: [rfc][patch] sched: remove smpnice |
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> I think that the problems with excessive idling with the early versions > of my modifications to Con's patch showed that the load balancing code > is fairly sensitive to the average load per normal task not being > approximately 1. My latest patches restore this state of affairs and > kernbench testing indicates that the excessive idling has gone away (see > Martin J Bligh's message of 2006/01/29 11:52 "Re: -mm seems > significantly slower than mainline on kernbench thread").
I *think* the latest slowdown in -mm was due to some TSC side effects from John's patches - see his other patch earlier today to fix (oops, I forgot to reply to that ..)
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