On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, Jeff Roberson wrote: JR> http://people.freebsd.org/~jeff/ule.diff JR> JR> This patch is scheduled for inclusion in 7.0. I would like anyone who cares JR> to run it to validate that it does not create any stability or performance JR> regression over the existing ULE. This patch replaces ULE with SCHED_SMP, JR> which will now no longer exist as a seperate fork of ULE. JR> JR> Briefly, this is still a very suitable scheduler for uniprocessor machines JR> while providing stronger affinity and other performance improvements for JR> multiprocessor machines. JR> JR> Even "works for me!" type responses are welcome so I know roughly how many JR> people have tested before I commit this close to release. Works for me with MSI S420 lapton (core2duo T2400) on fresh -CURRENT/i386 CPU: Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2400 _at_ 1.83GHz (1833.41-MHz 686-class CPU) However, make -j3 buildworld buildkernel (trimmed GENERIC) time degraded by 7%: marck_at_mck-s420:/var/tmp> ministat before after x before + after +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | x + | | x + | |x x x + + +| ||__MA____| |__A__| | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ N Min Max Median Avg Stddev x 5 36.33 36.77 36.45 36.486 0.16637307 + 5 38.87 39.23 39.03 39.042 0.12774976 Difference at 95.0% confidence 2.556 +/- 0.216322 7.00543% +/- 0.59289% (Student's t, pooled s = 0.148324) before = kernel with SCHED_4BSD, after = SCHED_ULE with your patchset. Both are without WITNESS/INVARIANTS. Sincerely, D.Marck [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- marck_at_rinet.ru *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------Received on Tue Jul 17 2007 - 19:16:52 UTC
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