Re: Scheduler latency

Jauder Ho (jauderho@transmeta.com)
Thu, 22 Jan 1998 09:26:33 -0800 (PST)


this is strange... am I the only one with a sucky ppro200?

marvin%jauderho% ./a.out
Timing 1000 iterations of sched_yield(2) in class SCHED_OTHER
Total time: 362958 us iteration time: 362 us

oh wait..

marvin%jauderho% uptime
9:26am up 20:22, 5 users, load average: 60.05, 59.61, 58.14

argh :)

--Jauder

On Thu, 22 Jan 1998, Richard Gooch wrote:

> Linus Torvalds writes:
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 22 Jan 1998, Richard Gooch wrote:
> > >
> > > How about 2.0.33? I've got that tree on disc.
> >
> > Sure, anything later than or equal to 2.0.31 should be ok in this regard
> > (obviously not the early 2.1.x series, they had the same problem).
>
> OK, here's some results for you:
>
> Dual PPro/180 running 2.1.79-SMP:
> SCHED_OTHER class: 56 microseconds
> SCHED_FIFO class: 3 microseconds
>
> Dual PPro/180 running 2.1.79-UP:
> SCHED_OTHER class: 40 microseconds
> SCHED_FIFO class: 2 microseconds
>
>
> Dual PPro/180 running 2.0.33-SMP:
> SCHED_OTHER class: 14 microseconds
> SCHED_FIFO class: 7 microseconds
>
> Dual PPro/180 running 2.0.33-UP:
> SCHED_OTHER class: 9 microseconds
> SCHED_FIFO class: 4 microseconds
>
> BTW: what news on my MTRR patch?
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard....
>

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