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From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
To: Lukas Hejtmanek <xhejtman@ics.muni.cz>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	mingo@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.24-git4+ regression
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 12:36:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1202124997.32654.78.camel@lappy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080204111747.GB4450@ics.muni.cz>


On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 12:17 +0100, Lukas Hejtmanek wrote:
> Ingo,
> 
> any progress here? I've tried to revert this patch:
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=67e9fb2a39a1d454218d50383094940982be138f
> 
> as it was marked as suspicious patch in this case
> (http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0801.3/1665.html)
> 
> but in such a case, kernel 2.6.24-git13 does oops at startup in sched_slice.
> 
> I think this is really *big* regression in 2.6.24 kernel.

I can't reproduce this with a pure cpu load. I started 10 
  while :; do :; done &
instances and aside from slowing down, nothing bad happened.

May I suggest you try latency top to see if there is something in your
build scenario that generates horrible latencies (some IO path or
whatnot).


  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-04 11:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-30 13:56 2.6.24-git4+ regression Lukas Hejtmanek
2008-01-31 10:29 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-31 10:55   ` Lukas Hejtmanek
2008-02-04 11:17   ` Lukas Hejtmanek
2008-02-04 11:36     ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2008-02-04 14:36       ` Lukas Hejtmanek
2008-02-04 14:45         ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-02-04 17:00           ` Lukas Hejtmanek
2008-02-04 12:01     ` Ingo Molnar
2008-02-04 12:29       ` Lukas Hejtmanek
2008-02-04 13:04         ` Ingo Molnar
2008-02-04 13:49           ` Lukas Hejtmanek
2008-02-14 16:55 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2008-02-17 20:26   ` Lukas Hejtmanek
2008-02-18  4:28     ` Ingo Molnar
2008-02-18  7:38       ` Mike Galbraith
2008-02-18  8:20         ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2008-02-18  8:36           ` Mike Galbraith
     [not found]             ` <1203325554.4889.2.camel@homer.simson.net>
     [not found]               ` <1203345102.5984.1.camel@homer.simson.net>
2008-02-19  8:15                 ` Mike Galbraith

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