Re: BFS vs. mainline scheduler benchmarks and measurements

From: Mike Galbraith
Date: Thu Sep 10 2009 - 06:57:43 EST


On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 12:28 +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:

> No difference. Then I tried switching NO_NEW_FAIR_SLEEPERS on, and then
> I get:
>
> Performance counter stats for 'xmodmap .xmodmap-carl':
>
> 9.009137 task-clock-msecs # 0.447 CPUs
> 18 context-switches # 0.002 M/sec
> 1 CPU-migrations # 0.000 M/sec
> 315 page-faults # 0.035 M/sec
> <not counted> cycles
> <not counted> instructions
> <not counted> cache-references
> <not counted> cache-misses
>
> 0.020167093 seconds time elapsed
>
> Woot!

Something is very seriously hosed on that box... clock?

Can you turn it back on, and do..
while sleep .1; do cat /proc/sched_debug >> foo; done
..on one core, and (quickly;) xmodmap .xmodmap-carl, then send me a few
seconds worth (gzipped up) to eyeball?

-Mike

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