On 12/13/2011 7:01 PM, m...@freebsd.org wrote:
>
> Has anyone experiencing problems tried to set sysctl
> kern.sched.steal_thresh=1 ?
>
> I don't remember what our specific problem at $WORK was, perhaps it
> was just interrupt threads not getting serviced fast enough, but we've
> hard-coded this to 1 and removed the code that sets it in
> sched_initticks(). The same effect should be had by setting the
> sysctl after a box is up.
FWIW, this does impact the performance of pbzip2 on an i7. Using a 1.1G file
pbzip2 -v -c big > /dev/null
with burnP6 running in the background,
sysctl kern.sched.steal_thresh=1
vs
sysctl kern.sched.steal_thresh=3
N Min Max Median Avg Stddev
x 10 38.005022 38.42238 38.194648 38.165052 0.15546188
+ 9 38.695417 40.595544 39.392127 39.435384 0.59814114
Difference at 95.0% confidence
1.27033 +/- 0.412636
3.32852% +/- 1.08119%
(Student's t, pooled s = 0.425627)
a value of 1 is *slightly* faster.
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