Re: pipe and af/unix latency differences between aa and jam on smp

[J.A. Magallon]

On 2002.07.09 [e-mail] wrote:
>The -jam patchset is interesting because it starts out
>with the entire -aa patchset and adds a few things.
>
>Sometimes small differences in LMbench between -jam and -aa are 
>just CPU bounces on SMP.  The difference for pipe and af/unix latency
>only appears on SMP too, but it is very consistent.  (My k6/2
>has small differences between -aa and -jam for pipe and af/unix
>latency).
>
>You will know better what could make the difference:
>
>This is the averages:
>
>*Local* Communication latencies in microseconds - smaller is better
>-------------------------------------------------------------------
>kernel              Pipe    AF/Unix
>-----------------  -------  -------
>2.4.19-pre10-aa4    33.941   70.216
>2.4.19-pre10-jam2    7.877   16.699
>

Candidates in pre10-jam2 could be:

11-irqbalance-B1.bz2
12-smptimers-A0.bz2
13-irqrate-A1.bz2

excluding anything that has nothing to do with pipes or latency.

Could you try latest -rc1-aa2 ? It includes also irqbalance, so it could be
on varable less in the equation.
I dropped smptimers and irqrate because they did not mix very well  with
bproc and O1 scheduler, but I can try to add them again.

I have a rc1-jam2 ready, but the only important change wrt SMP could be the
mem-barrier specific implementation for P3/P4, and your box is an AMD.

??

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