Re: NUMA scheduler (was: 2.5 merge candidate list 1.5)

[Martin J. Bligh]

>> Schedbench 4:
>>                              Elapsed   TotalUser    TotalSys     AvgUser
>>               2.5.44-mm4       32.45       49.47      129.86        0.82
>>       2.5.44-mm4-focht-1       38.61       45.15      154.48        1.06
>>       2.5.44-mm4-hbaum-1       37.81       46.44      151.26        0.78
>>      2.5.44-mm4-focht-12       23.23       38.87       92.99        0.85
>>      2.5.44-mm4-hbaum-12       22.26       34.70       89.09        0.70
>>         2.5.44-mm4-f1-h2       21.39       35.97       85.57        0.81
> 
> One more remarks:
> You seem to have made the numa_test shorter. That reduces it to beeing
> simply a check for the initial load balancing as the hackbench running in
> the background (and aimed to disturb the initial load balancing) might
> start too late. You will most probably not see the impact of node affinity
> with such short running tests. But we weren't talking about node affinity,
> yet...

I didn't modify what you sent me at all ... perhaps my machine is
just faster than yours?

/me ducks & runs ;-)

M.