At 17.25 10/10/01 -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: >Please test this patch and tell Alan and me how it works for >you and whether there are loads where the system performs >worse with this patch than without... qsbench results, Linux-2.4.10-ac9: lenstra:~/src/qsort> time ./qsbench -n 90000000 -p 1 -s 140175100 seed = 140175100 71.370u 2.560s 3:17.94 37.3% 0+0k 0+0io 11773pf+0w lenstra:~/src/qsort> time ./qsbench -n 90000000 -p 1 -s 140175100 seed = 140175100 71.760u 3.170s 4:02.93 30.8% 0+0k 0+0io 15487pf+0w lenstra:~/src/qsort> time ./qsbench -n 90000000 -p 1 -s 140175100 seed = 140175100 71.090u 3.080s 4:07.94 29.9% 0+0k 0+0io 15856pf+0w kswapd CPU time: 0:23 Linux-2.4.10-ac9 + Rik's smooth patch: lenstra:~/src/qsort> time ./qsbench -n 90000000 -p 1 -s 140175100 seed = 140175100 71.090u 6.260s 3:21.65 38.3% 0+0k 0+0io 12868pf+0w lenstra:~/src/qsort> time ./qsbench -n 90000000 -p 1 -s 140175100 seed = 140175100 72.460u 6.030s 3:58.10 32.9% 0+0k 0+0io 14637pf+0w lenstra:~/src/qsort> time ./qsbench -n 90000000 -p 1 -s 140175100 seed = 140175100 71.630u 7.400s 4:00.86 32.8% 0+0k 0+0io 14894pf+0w kswapd CPU time: 0:21 -- Lorenzo - Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ IRC Channel: irc.openprojects.net / #kernelnewbies Web Page: http://www.kernelnewbies.org/
