linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] sched.c: Be a bit more conservative in SMP

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Date:	Fri, 22 Sep 2006 14:31:13 +0200
From:	"Antonio Vargas" <windenntw@...il.com>
To:	"Ludovic Drolez" <ludovic.drolez@...box.com>
Cc:	"Vincent Pelletier" <vincent.plr@...adoo.fr>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched.c: Be a bit more conservative in SMP

On 9/22/06, Ludovic Drolez <ludovic.drolez@...box.com> wrote:
> Vincent Pelletier wrote:
> > Maybe I was completely wrong with my assumption that one running process
> > always has an impact of 1, which would have make the scheduler underestimate
> > the load on one cpu and put too many processes on it, without moving them
> > afterward.
>
> Yes, maybe that's the problem, since in my bench, one process takes only 40% of
> the CPU.
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
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Provided you have enough memory, the somewhat better way to test this
is to turn off swap, copy the sources to a tmpfs directory and compile
there. Then any disks accesses would be only related to reloading code
pages from the compiler / daemons /shared libs, which having even more
ram would solve so that it's all compute bound. I guess even 1.5Gb of
ram is plenty for all this, and not so much costly nowdays for a
kernel hacker ;)

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