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From: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
To: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	"Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: netperf ~50% regression with 2.6.33-rc1, bisect to 1b9508f
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:45:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1264419913.5888.49.camel@marge.simson.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1264419342.5888.42.camel@marge.simson.net>

On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 12:35 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:

> So.  Rummaging around doing absolutely _nothing_ useful, there being
> zero movable tasks in this load, prevents us switching to the idle
> thread before the scheduling task is requeued.  Oh joy.

Wait a minute.  The only way that can work is if we hit contended lock,
and drop our rq lock (and where would busiest->nr_running > 1 come from
with a 2 task load?)

Puzzled.

	-Mike


  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-25 11:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-25 10:03 netperf ~50% regression with 2.6.33-rc1, bisect to 1b9508f Lin Ming
2010-01-25 11:35 ` Mike Galbraith
2010-01-25 11:45   ` Mike Galbraith [this message]
2010-01-26  9:03   ` Lin Ming
2010-01-25 14:03 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-25 14:19   ` Mike Galbraith

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