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From: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.19-rc1: Slowdown in lmbench's fork
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 10:34:13 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1162492453.10806.75.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1d5851yxd.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>

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.
Adding the percpu vector_irq variable did not cause any changes.  

Tim

  reply	other threads:[~2006-11-02 19:23 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 [this message]
2006-11-03  2:11     ` 2.6.19-rc1: x86_64 slowdown " Adrian Bunk
2006-11-03  9:08       ` 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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