ULE/SCHED_SMP diff for 7.0

Ganbold ganbold at micom.mng.net
Tue Jul 17 10:02:23 UTC 2007


Jeff Roberson wrote:
> http://people.freebsd.org/~jeff/ule.diff
>
> This patch is scheduled for inclusion in 7.0.  I would like anyone who 
> cares to run it to validate that it does not create any stability or 
> performance regression over the existing ULE.  This patch replaces ULE 
> with SCHED_SMP, which will now no longer exist as a seperate fork of ULE.
>
> Briefly, this is still a very suitable scheduler for uniprocessor 
> machines while providing stronger affinity and other performance 
> improvements for multiprocessor machines.
>
> Even "works for me!" type responses are welcome so I know roughly how 
> many people have tested before I commit this close to release.

Forgot to tell that I have machine with:

CPU: Genuine Intel(R) CPU           T2300  @ 1.66GHz (1664.45-MHz 
686-class CPU)
   Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x6e8  Stepping = 8
 
Features=0xbfe9fbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>
   Features2=0xc1a9<SSE3,MON,VMX,EST,TM2,xTPR,PDCM>
   AMD Features=0x100000<NX>
   Cores per package: 2
real memory  = 1063849984 (1014 MB)
avail memory = 1031077888 (983 MB)
FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs

and WITNESS/INVARIANTS enabled kernel.

Ganbold

>
> Thanks!
> Jeff
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