Re: [PATCH 1/13] timestamp fixes

2005-03-01 Thread Nick Piggin
Nick Piggin wrote: Andrew Theurer wrote: Nick, can you describe the system you run the DB tests on? Do you have any cpu idle time stats and hopefully some context switch rate stats? Yeah, it is dbt3-pgsql on OSDL's 8-way STP machines. I think they're PIII Xeons with 2MB L2 cache. I had been hav

Re: [PATCH 1/13] timestamp fixes

2005-03-01 Thread Nick Piggin
Andrew Theurer wrote: Nick, can you describe the system you run the DB tests on? Do you have any cpu idle time stats and hopefully some context switch rate stats? Yeah, it is dbt3-pgsql on OSDL's 8-way STP machines. I think they're PIII Xeons with 2MB L2 cache. I had been having some difficulty r

Re: [PATCH 1/13] timestamp fixes

2005-02-28 Thread Andrew Theurer
Nick, can you describe the system you run the DB tests on? Do you have any cpu idle time stats and hopefully some context switch rate stats? I think I understand the concern [patch 6] of stealing a task from one node to an idle cpu in another node, but I wonder if we can have some sort of che

Re: [PATCH 1/13] timestamp fixes

2005-02-24 Thread Ingo Molnar
; > > > Yes. Which might also explain why I didn't see -ve intervals :( Thanks > Ingo. > > In the context of the whole patchset, testing has mainly been based > around multiprocessor behaviour so this doesn't invalidate that. nono, by 'this' i only meant that pa

Re: [PATCH 1/13] timestamp fixes

2005-02-24 Thread Nick Piggin
On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 08:46 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 1/13 > > > > ugh, has this been tested? It needs the patch below. > Yes. Which might also explain why I didn't see -ve intervals :( Thanks Ingo. In the context of the whole patchset, testing

Re: [PATCH 1/13] timestamp fixes

2005-02-23 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1/13 > ugh, has this been tested? It needs the patch below. Ingo Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux/kernel/sched.c.orig +++ linux/kernel/sched.c @@ -2704,11 +2704,11 @@ need_resched_nonpreemptible: schedstat_i

[PATCH 1/13] timestamp fixes

2005-02-23 Thread Nick Piggin
1/13 Some fixes for unsynchronised TSCs. A task's timestamp may have been set by another CPU. Although we try to adjust this correctly with the timestamp_last_tick field, there is no guarantee this will be exactly right. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: linux-2.6/kernel/sche