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Re: SMP kernel completes kernel compile

To: ananth@xxxxxxx (Rajagopal Ananthanarayanan)
Subject: Re: SMP kernel completes kernel compile
From: kanoj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Kanoj Sarcar)
Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 00:37:32 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: linux-origin@xxxxxxxxxxx, skunx@xxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <391D869F.DF668984@xxxxxxx> from "Rajagopal Ananthanarayanan" at May 13, 2000 09:45:19 AM
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> 
> Kanoj Sarcar wrote:
> > 
> > The mips64 SMP kernel completed a mips kernel compile on a 8 cpu
> > o2000, with approx 128 Mb memory.
> > 
> > Here are some timings:
> > 
> > make -j8:
> > 46.34user 32.34system 6:25.91elapsed 20%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 
> > 0maxresident)k
> > 0inputs+0outputs (497100major+1814481minor)pagefaults 0swaps
> > 
> > make -j4
> > 12.56user 16.34system 6:37.93elapsed 7%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
> > 0inputs+0outputs (497100major+1807168minor)pagefaults 0swaps
> > 
> > make -j32
> > 44.00user 29.25system 6:35.93elapsed 18%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 
> > 0maxresident)k
> > 0inputs+0outputs (497174major+1826803minor)pagefaults 0swaps
> 
> 
> Awesome! And the resultant kernel boots ok? ;-)

Didn't try ... basically, even a mips kernel built on a Indy probably
has a big chance of not working right now. On top of that, the compiler
used on the o2k is of unknown origin, I think Ralf/Ulf was using this
compiler for the mips binutils work. The compilers from known rpms
can't quite compile the kernel (on mips and mips64).

> 
> I wonder if we can get base-line stats on a 4-CPU X86 system,
> say for -j4 & -j8 and compare that with the O2K system.

No, we are not at a stage we can do raw performance comparisions
yet. Scalability studies are a little more acceptable, but we 
still need to make the arch code utilize the hardware better.

> What version of the kernel are you using, 2.3.99preX?

I tried 2.3.99pre6, but pre8 became tot yesterday or so. I haven't
tried a kernel compile with that, but tot booted/telneted okay.

Kanoj

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> Rajagopal Ananthanarayanan ("ananth")
> Member Technical Staff, SGI.
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