Re: [BENCHMARK] O1int patch with contest

Nick Piggin (piggin@cyberone.com.au)
Sat, 28 Jun 2003 09:11:31 +1000


Con Kolivas wrote:

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>I've had some (off list) requests to see if the interactivity patch I posted
>shows any differences in contest. To be honest I wasn't sure it would, and
>this is not quite what I expected. Below is a 2.5.73-mm1 patched with
>patch-O1int-0306271816 (2.5.73-O1i) compared to 2.5.73-mm1 with contest
>(http://contest.kolivas.org).
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Hi Con,
It looks like the patch is starving the background loads.
read_load for example can use up to 7% (maybe more) of the
CPU. It is brought down to 2.2%, list_load is worse.

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