Re: Performance of Ingo's O(1) scheduler on NUMA-Q

[Martin J. Bligh]

>> > Measuring kernel compile times on a 16 way NUMA-Q, adding Ingo's
>> > scheduler patch takes kernel compiles down from 47 seconds to 31
>> > seconds .... pretty impressive benefit.
>  
>> cool! By the way, could you try a test-compile with a 'big' .config file?
> 
> I'd assume that a 16way machine still taking 31s to compile the kernel
> is already having a 'big' config file. 

It's a fairly normal config file, but the machine isn't feeling very
in touch with it's NUMAness, so it scales badly. If I only use one
quad (4 processsors), the same compile takes 47s.

M.