On 24-Aug-2000 PianoMan wrote:
> On a dual processor PIIIEB 666Mhz, I created a simple FPU intensive
> program that operated on 60MB of matricies. It takes ~26 minutes to run
> completely. When scheduled on the special designated application
> processor, it takes approximately 1 to 2% less wall clock time then when
> scheduled on the one system processor. Thus, the performance benefit is
> probably too little to be worth it (or even to measure given measurement
> inaccuracy). Had it been 5%, I would feel differently ;-)
Did you try loads that included a lot of network activity? That's probably
where you'd see the biggest difference. A lot of the network processing
happens in softirqs and your patch would take all this processing away from
the application cpu.
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Dimitris Michailidis dimitris@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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