On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 02:12:28PM +0530, Balbir Singh wrote: Hi Andrew, > The code was also tested on a power box with regular machine usage scenarios, > the config disabled and with a stress suite that touched all the memory > in the system and was limited in a container. > > Dhaval ran several tests on v6 and gave his thumbs up to the controller > (a hard to achieve goal :-) ). >
I've been running v6 on x86 and there are a few things I've tried. Most of those results Balbir has already posted. > Run kernbench stress > -------------------- > Three simultaneously and with one inside a container of 800 MB. > The idea here was to create pressure inside the container while having global pressure. > > Kernbench results running within the container of 800 MB > -------------------------------------------------------- > > Thu Aug 16 22:34:59 IST 2007 > 2.6.23-rc2-mm2-mem-v6 > Average Half load -j 4 Run (std deviation): > Elapsed Time 466.548 (47.6014) > User Time 876.598 (10.5273) > System Time 223.136 (1.29247) > Percent CPU 237.2 (23.2744) > Context Switches 146351 (6539.91) > Sleeps 174003 (5031.94) > > Average Optimal load -j 32 Run (std deviation): > Elapsed Time 423.496 (60.625) > User Time 897.285 (23.0391) > System Time 228.836 (6.11205) > Percent CPU 257.1 (40.9022) > Context Switches 262134 (123397) > Sleeps 270815 (103597) > > > Kernbench results running within the default container > ------------------------------------------------------ > > Thu Aug 16 22:34:33 IST 2007 > 2.6.23-rc2-mm2-mem-v6 > Average Half load -j 4 Run (std deviation): > Elapsed Time 424.17 (3.45908) > User Time 841.992 (5.40178) > System Time 213.01 (0.706258) > Percent CPU 248.2 (0.83666) > Context Switches 134254 (9535.83) > Sleeps 167359 (6858.45) > > Average Optimal load -j 32 Run (std deviation): > Elapsed Time 407.092 (108.932) > User Time 878.493 (38.6575) > System Time 222.155 (9.77127) > Percent CPU 278.4 (91.5826) > Context Switches 253836 (127708) > Sleeps 263760 (103468) > > > Kernbench results running within the default container > ------------------------------------------------------ > > Thu Aug 16 22:34:52 IST 2007 > 2.6.23-rc2-mm2-mem-v6 > Average Half load -j 4 Run (std deviation): > Elapsed Time 465.038 (48.5147) > User Time 874.742 (5.86563) > System Time 222.194 (0.561676) > Percent CPU 237.2 (22.5211) > Context Switches 144040 (7052.23) > Sleeps 172130 (5608.73) > > Average Optimal load -j 32 Run (std deviation): > Elapsed Time 426.25 (62.34) > User Time 893.938 (20.6732) > System Time 227.717 (5.87502) > Percent CPU 255.6 (40.7163) > Context Switches 259560 (122953) > Sleeps 267402 (101801) > I've been running v6 for sometime and it has been stable (still not been able to break/crash it, whereas v4 was broken within 1 hour :-) ) Andrew, I feel these patches whould be included in mm so that it gets wider testing. -- regards, Dhaval I would like to change the world but they don't give me the source code! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
