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2.5.38-mm2 contest results

From:  Con Kolivas <conman@kolivas.net>
To:  linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject:  [BENCHMARK] 2.5.38-mm2 contest results
Date:  Mon, 23 Sep 2002 17:24:14 +1000
Cc:  axboe@suse.de, Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>



Here follow the contest benchmarks for 2.5.38-mm2

NoLoad:
Kernel                  Time            CPU
2.4.19                  66.56           99%
2.5.38                  68.25           99%
2.5.38-mm1              67.17           99%
2.5.38-mm2              67.48           99%

Process Load:
Kernel                  Time            CPU
2.4.19                  81.29           80%
2.5.38                  71.60           95%
2.5.38-mm1              70.49           95%
2.5.38-mm2              70.82           95%

IO Half Load:
Kernel                  Time            CPU
2.4.19                  101.39          69%
2.5.38                  81.26           90%
2.5.38-mm1              82.52           87%
2.5.38-mm2              78.46           91%

IO Full Load:
Kernel                  Time            CPU
2.4.19                  170.70          41%
2.5.38                  170.21          42%
2.5.38-mm1              434.41          16%
2.5.38-mm2              108.15          66%

Mem Load:
Kernel                  Time            CPU
2.4.19                  93.33           77%
2.5.38                  104.22          70%
2.5.38-mm1              92.97           77%
2.5.38-mm2              90.89           80%

As akpm has said, mm2 should fix the write starves read problem in mm2 and this
is clearly shown in the IO full load results being substantially better.
This is on an IDE system. 

Other results removed for clarity. All tests are done with gcc2.95.3 :\

Con.
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