On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 16:45 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> I think the moving to another CPU gets really dependent on the CPU type.
> On a P4+HT the caches are shared, and moving costs almost nothing for
> cache hits, while on CPUs which have other cache layouts the migration
> cost is higher. Obviously multi-core should be cheaper than
> multi-socket, by avoiding using the system memory bus, but it still can
> get ugly.
>
> I have an IPC test around which showed that, it ran like hell on HT, and
> progressively worse as cache because less shared. I wonder why the
> latest git works so much better?
Yes, I'm wondering the same. With latest git, ~400 usec work units
suffice to achieve overlap (on my P4/HT), whereas all other kernels
tested require several milliseconds.
-Mike
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