ULE status, invalid load, buildkernel times.

[Mike Tancsa]

At 12:26 AM 7/22/2007, lveax wrote:
>On 7/22/07, Mike Tancsa <mike at sentex.net> wrote:
>>At 08:55 PM 7/21/2007, Jeff Roberson wrote:
>> >I have a patch available at:
>> >
>> >http://people.freebsd.org/~jeff/ulehtt.diff
>> >
>> >I also believe that the buildkernel/world times are now
>> >significantly improved.  If this is not the case for you please send
>> >a mail.  Any other performance data is appreciated.
>>
>>on 4 cores with ULE in the tree
>>CPU: Dual Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 270 HE (1991.73-MHz 686-class CPU)
>>    Origin = "AuthenticAMD"  Id = 0x20f12  Stepping = 2
>> 
>>Features=0x178bfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,HTT>
>>    Features2=0x1<SSE3>
>>    AMD Features=0xe2500800<SYSCALL,NX,MMX+,FFXSR,LM,3DNow!+,3DNow!>
>>    AMD Features2=0x3<LAHF,CMP>
>>    Cores per package: 2
>>real memory  = 1610547200 (1535 MB)
>>avail memory = 1568690176 (1496 MB)
>>ACPI APIC Table: <A M I  OEMAPIC >
>>FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 4 CPUs
>>   cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID:  0
>>   cpu1 (AP): APIC ID:  1
>>   cpu2 (AP): APIC ID:  2
>>   cpu3 (AP): APIC ID:  3
>>
>>[cheetah]# time make -j8 buildkernel > /var/log/build.out.k
>>843.601u 95.442s 8:46.70 178.2% 5612+1002k 8067+6346io 350pf+0w
>>with patch above
>>[cheetah]# time make -j8 buildkernel >
>>/var/log/build.out.k
>>841.903u 95.183s 8:38.17 180.8% 5608+1002k 9051+6282io 388pf+0w
>>[cheetah]#
>
>Could you make a test with 4bsd?

 From a couple of days ago
using 4BSD
make -j4,6,8
848.747u 101.484s 8:09.20 194.2%        5596+977k 7635+6458io 198pf+0w
849.662u 104.233s 7:41.64 206.6%        5605+978k 629+6477io 4pf+0w
852.998u 102.805s 7:48.33 204.0%        5607+978k 686+6392io 2pf+0w

also tried with base ULE+patch from this thread
time make -j16 buildkernel > /var/log/build.out.k
845.800u 97.501s 8:15.20 190.4% 5606+1001k 643+6350io 2pf+0w

         ---Mike