BFS vs. mainline scheduler benchmarks and measurements

Posted Sep 8, 2009 7:48 UTC (Tue) by epa (subscriber, #39769)
In reply to: BFS vs. mainline scheduler benchmarks and measurements by aigarius
Parent article: BFS vs. mainline scheduler benchmarks and measurements

It might help to see some numbers. Take Fedora's smolt data, which is from people who have clicked 'yes' when installing Fedora and have reported what hardware they use.

This shows that more than half of Fedora systems are dual-processor, with another 38% having a single CPU. So based on hardware that's in use now, a one- or two- processor test would be more reasonable. Of course it's useful to test on 16-processor monsters as well, but that is not the typical desktop and won't be for some time. (And by the time it is, all sorts of other assumptions will have changed too.)