On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 16:45 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:

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> 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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