From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 14 17:34:38 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8475E106564A; Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:34:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ache@vniz.net) Received: from vniz.net (vniz.net [194.87.13.69]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC28B8FC0C; Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:34:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vniz.net (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id pBEHYaPU041992; Wed, 14 Dec 2011 21:34:36 +0400 (MSK) (envelope-from ache@vniz.net) Received: (from ache@localhost) by localhost (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) id pBEHYZP4041991; Wed, 14 Dec 2011 21:34:35 +0400 (MSK) (envelope-from ache) Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 21:34:35 +0400 From: Andrey Chernov To: Adrian Chadd Message-ID: <20111214173435.GA41893@vniz.net> Mail-Followup-To: Andrey Chernov , Adrian Chadd , Ivan Klymenko , Doug Barton , "O. Hartmann" , Current FreeBSD , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG References: <4EE1EAFE.3070408@m5p.com> <4EE22421.9060707@gmail.com> <4EE6060D.5060201@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> <4EE69C5A.3090005@FreeBSD.org> <20111213104048.40f3e3de@nonamehost.> <20111213090051.GA3339@vniz.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: Ivan Klymenko , Doug Barton , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, "O. Hartmann" , Current FreeBSD , freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCHED_ULE should not be the default X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:34:38 -0000 On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 02:22:48AM -0800, Adrian Chadd wrote: > On 13 December 2011 01:00, Andrey Chernov wrote: > > >> If the algorithm ULE does not contain problems - it means the problem > >> has Core2Duo, or in a piece of code that uses the ULE scheduler. > > > > I observe ULE interactivity slowness even on single core machine (Pentium > > 4) in very visible places, like 'ps ax' output stucks in the middle by ~1 > > second. When I switch back to SHED_4BSD, all slowness is gone. > > Are you able to provide KTR traces of the scheduler results? Something > that can be fed to schedgraph? Sorry, this machine is not mine anymore. I try SCHED_ULE on Core 2 Duo instead and don't notice this effect, but it is overall pretty fast comparing to that Pentium 4. -- http://ache.vniz.net/