On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 18:10, Peter Williams wrote:
> Michal Piotrowski wrote:
> > Hi,
> > here are schedulers benchmark (part2):
> > [bits deleted]
>
> Here's a summary of your output generated using the attached Python script.
>
> | Build Statistics | Overall Statistics
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Scheduler| Real CPU SYS TPT | CPU TPT delay CXSW
>
> | (secs) (secs) (%) (%) | (secs) (%) (secs)
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> ingosched| 3128.5 5056.3 8.18 161.6 | 5379.5 171.9 159367.4 1556452
> staircase| 3131.2 5032.6 8.09 160.7 | 5352.9 170.9 135193.0 1670366
> spa_no_frills| 3103.8 5049.5 7.98 162.7 | 5266.7 169.7 172384.8 520937
> zaphod(d,d)| 3561.7 4823.8 9.25 135.4 | 5132.0 144.1 148361.5 1771617
> zaphod(d,0)| 3551.2 4809.9 9.19 135.4 | 5114.7 144.0 144022.0 1784814
> zaphod(0,d)| 3126.8 5063.2 8.11 161.9 | 5278.1 168.8 173438.4 573587
> zaphod(0,0)| 3105.5 5052.9 7.98 162.7 | 5254.8 169.2 165774.4 577534
> nicksched| 3294.7 5095.1 9.10 154.6 | 5425.4 164.6 104298.2 2205665
>
> where the (x,y) after zaphod means (max_ia_bonus, max_tpt_bonus) and "d"
> means default. I had to kill a few significant digits to squeeze it
> into 71 columns. Overall statistics are extracted from the schedstats
> data. In the "Build Statistics" "CPU" is the sum of the user and sys
> times and "SYS" is the percentage of that which was sys time (as I feel
> that is a better thing to compare than raw sys times).
>
> I was intrigued by the fact that zaphod(d,d) and zaphod(d,0) take longer
> in real time but use less cpu. I was assuming that this meant that some
> other job was getting some cpu but the schedstats data doesn't support
> that. Also it wouldn't make sense anyway as you'd expect jobs doing the
> same amount of work to use roughly the same amount of cpu. My latest
> theory is that your machine has hyper threads and this artifact is
> caused by the mechanism in the scheduler for handling tasks with
> differing priority in sibling hyper thread channels. Does your system
> have hyper threads?
That would only do something if there was a difference in 'nice' levels. What
you're seeing is the fact that balancing is intimately tied in with timeslice
size and you have increased idle time.
Cheers,
Con
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