On Fri, 2013-02-15 at 01:13 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote: > I've been working on cleaning up the scheduler a little and I moved the > call to idle_balance() from directly in the scheduler proper into the > idle class. Benchmarks (well hackbench) improved slightly as I did this. > I was adding some more tweaks and running perf stat on the results when > I made a mistake and notice a drastic change. > > My runs looked something like this on my i7 4 core 4 hyperthreads: >
> 293,801,912,874 cycles # 1.470 GHz > ( +- 4.20% ) [100.00%] > 215,927,081,108 cycles # 2.198 GHz > ( +- 5.48% ) [100.00%] Hm. Maybe set governor to performance? -Mike -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

