did something change in SMP scheduling from 5.4 to 6.0?

[Randy Schultz]

Tnx for the response.

On Fri, 27 Jan 2006, Lowell Gilbert spaketh thusly:

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-}What was the actual workload at that point?  It looks like there's

Not much actually.  ~.3 or .4.

-}only one runnable process, and it's running, so there is no reason to
-}care which processor it's on.  

Yeah that's what I was thinking as well but I have been pushing it a fair
bit and still see everything on the first proc.  Here is 1 example:

last pid: 82302;  load averages:  2.20,  0.82,  0.41     up 6+23:37:10  11:24:50
127 processes: 6 running, 121 sleeping
CPU states: 16.1% user,  0.0% nice,  2.1% system,  0.0% interrupt, 81.9% idle
Mem: 295M Active, 1050M Inact, 294M Wired, 72K Cache, 112M Buf, 364M Free
Swap: 4096M Total, 4096M Free
 
  PID USERNAME  THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE  C   TIME   WCPU COMMAND
  655 schultz     1  76    0 30024K 29276K RUN    0  50:32  2.25% Xorg
82301 root        1 139    0 10784K 10200K RUN    0   0:00  2.25% cc1
12185 schultz     1  76    0 76532K 75704K select 0  22:37  0.00% opera
14583 schultz     1  76    0  5512K  4548K select 0   5:49  0.00% xterm-static
 3013 schultz     8  20    0 91760K 77840K kserel 0   4:57  0.00% evolution-2.2
10846 schultz     1  76    0  5452K  4460K select 0   3:24  0.00% xterm-static
41670 schultz     1  76    0 10236K  8572K select 0   2:23  0.00% pine
  667 schultz     1  76    0 20844K 10208K select 0   1:20  0.00% xchat
 

Now when running the compile it seemed to make no difference whether or not
I was running 1 or 3 compiles, the system still hugged cpu0.  I did see
occasional hops to the second cpu but they were rare.
 
-}
-}I'm not sure there's an issue here.  Spreading the work among two

Me either but I thought I'ld ask those who know more.

-}processors might make slightly better use of cache space, but would
-}make power-saving modes less useful.  Now if you run two completely
-}independent CPU-intensive processes, you'll see both CPUs in use.

Well, I have and have seen them running all on cpu0 and have seen some
spread out.  What I cannot be sure of is when multiple compiles are running
on the same cpu what exactly each was doing.  For example I've kicked off
several portupgrades and they all run mostly on cpu0 however with a 
portupgrade there is so much more going. <shrug> If I can get more data 
I'll post back here.  

Tnx again for the help.

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