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From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>,
	mingo@elte.hu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 0/2] fix perf. bug in wake-up load balancing for aim7 and db workload
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 14:44:17 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43F15211.2090206@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060213193856.696bf1f0.akpm@osdl.org>

Andrew Morton wrote:

> 
> 
> Well I don't see any benchmark numbers in the original patch.  Just an
> assertion that it "should" help something.
> 

The regression was in a Ken's commercial database benchmark. I couldn't
reproduce it but presumably it did fix it otherwise Ken would would have
piped up?

> I'm more inclined to revert it and not add the sysctl (ugh) until we have a
> good reason to do so.
> 

If you revert this then Ken's database benchmark gets worse. Hence the
sysctl.

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-02-14  3:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-14  3:09 [patch 0/2] fix perf. bug in wake-up load balancing for aim7 and db workload Chen, Kenneth W
2006-02-14  3:38 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-14  3:44   ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2006-02-14  3:57     ` Nick Piggin
2006-02-14  4:13       ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-14  3:59     ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-14  6:13     ` Chen, Kenneth W
2006-02-14  5:47   ` Chen, Kenneth W
2006-02-14  7:34   ` Ingo Molnar
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-02-14  7:46 Chen, Kenneth W
2006-02-14  8:00 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-14 12:47   ` Ingo Molnar
2006-02-14 18:31     ` Chen, Kenneth W
2006-02-14  8:04 Chen, Kenneth W

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