HEADS UP: new cpuset and scheduler topology code.

Aryeh M. Friedman aryeh.friedman at gmail.com
Sun Mar 2 17:12:49 UTC 2008


Jeff Roberson wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Mar 2008, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:
>
>>
>>>
>>> Many programs should run faster on dual and quadcore machines but 
>>> there is still some tuning to do.  If you notice a workload is now 
>>> significantly faster or slower please report it to me.
>>
>> I know this is not scientific but so far my experiences are:
>>
>> HW Spec: e6850 w/ 4GB on AMD64
>> Kernel Options: All debugging removed and IPI_PREEMPTION enabled
>> Build/install world/kernel (-j3): 44 mins (15 min. reduction)
>> done wile also running the following in the background:
>>
>
> Can you back up your sched_ule.c by one version and try again to 
> verify these results?  That would be quite a fantastic reduction.
>

Will do later today... a small mote I have noticed a few panics during a 
portupgrade -afk will attempt to track these down also... as to the 
cvs-src@ request for adding this RELENG_7 it is no where near stable 
enough I think.



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