Re: [LIP] Testing in SMP

Arun Sharma <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.user-groups.linux.india.programmers
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 10:30:59AM +0530, suresh kumar wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am porting some functionality into linux smp. I am not aware, as 
> how I can test the functionality once porting is completed. I would 
> like to know, as how the load is balanced, basically the profiling 
> etc...as one parameter. I can think of LTT for that. What other 
> parametres, that are to be considered, to test ANY functionality  
> being ported properly to smp linux, in general.

The main thing you're probably looking for is scalability. Does your
software run 1.9x faster or just 1.2x faster on a 2 way SMP box?

Typical issues are cache line alignment of structures and locking granularity
that suits your use case.

	-Arun


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