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From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ak@suse.de, discuss@x86-64.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.19-rc1: x86_64 slowdown in lmbench's fork
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 03:11:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061103021145.GD13381@stusta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1162492453.10806.75.camel@localhost.localdomain>

On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 10:34:13AM -0800, Tim Chen wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 11:33 -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> 
> > My only partial guess is that it might be worth adding the per cpu
> > variables my patch adds without any of the corresponding code changes.
> > And see if adding variables to the per cpu area is what is causing the
> > change.
> > 
> > The two tests I can see in this line are:
> > - to add the percpu vector_irq variable.
> > - to increase NR_IRQs.
> 
> Increasing the NR_IRQs resulted in the regression.
>...

What's your CONFIG_NR_CPUS setting that you are seeing such a big
regression?

> Tim

cu
Adrian

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        of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
       "Only a promise," Lao Er said.
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-11-03  2:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-02 16:44 2.6.19-rc1: Slowdown in lmbench's fork Tim Chen
2006-11-02 18:33 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-11-02 18:34   ` Tim Chen
2006-11-03  2:11     ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
2006-11-03  9:08       ` 2.6.19-rc1: x86_64 slowdown " Eric W. Biederman
2006-11-03 16:10       ` Tim Chen
2006-11-03 17:35         ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-11-03 17:47           ` Andi Kleen
2006-11-03 18:18             ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-11-03 18:39               ` Andi Kleen
2006-11-03 20:25             ` Tim Chen

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