Re: [stable] [Bug #12809] iozone regression with 2.6.29-rc6

Chris Wright
2009-04-06T23:36:21Z

* Rafael J. Wysocki (rjw@sisk.pl) wrote:
> On Tuesday 07 April 2009, Wu Fengguang wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 06:15:09AM +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote:
> > > On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 03:05:38AM +0800, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > > Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12809
> > > > Subject : iozone regression with 2.6.29-rc6
> > > > Submitter : Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
> > > > Date : 2009-02-27 9:13 (39 days old)
> > > > First-Bad-Commit: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=1cf6e7d83bf334cc5916137862c920a97aabc018
> > > > References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123572630504360&w=4
> > > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/3/14/265
> > > > Handled-By : Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
> > >
> > > This bug could be closed.
> > >
> > > The performance regression is triggered by commit 1cf6e7d83bf3(mm:
> > > task dirty accounting fix). Which has been reverted in 2.6.29.
> >
> > Sorry for the mistake, commit 1cf6e7d83bf3 was _not_ reverted.
> > So 2.6.29 is expected to have this regression..
>
> Added -stable to the CC list. I'm not sure if that was included into .29.1.

1cf6e7d83bf3 is part of 2.6.29.1 (came in 2.6.29-rc6)

> > > For 2.6.30, commit 1cf6e7d83bf33(mm: task dirty accounting fix) and
> > > 1b5e62b42b55(writeback: double the dirty thresholds) were just merged
> > > together. The latter one restores the iozone performance. (However
> > > might deteriorate some writeback slowness bugs..)

1b5e62b42b55 is not in -stable.

thanks,
-chris