Re: [BENCHMARK] 2.5.46-mm1 with contest

Robert Love (rml@tech9.net)
07 Nov 2002 18:48:10 -0500


On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 17:53, Con Kolivas wrote:

> io_load:
> Kernel [runs] Time CPU% Loads LCPU% Ratio
> 2.5.44-mm6 [3] 284.1 28 20 10 3.98
> 2.5.46 [1] 600.5 13 48 12 8.41
> 2.5.46-mm1 [5] 134.3 58 6 8 1.88
>
> Big change here. IO load is usually the one we feel the most.

Nice.

> Unfortunately I've only run this with preempt enabled so far and I believe
> many of the improvements are showing this effect.

Since your aim is desktop performance, I would like it if you always ran
with kernel preemption enabled. That is what we are targeting for
desktop performance.

Good job,

Robert Love

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