Re: Large increase in context switch rate

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge]

Alex Nixon (Intern) wrote:
> Yeah I've checked - the number of context switches seems to be around
> 60k regardless of whether CONFIG_PARAVIRT is switched on, and regardless
> of whether it's running in domu or native (-j4 on dual core)
>   

OK, just to be sure we're talking about the same thing, is kernbench 
displaying the context switch *rate*, or the total number of context 
switches during the build?

Peter is looking at vmstat, which is showing cs/sec.

   J
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