From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161076AbWAKBte (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jan 2006 20:49:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161059AbWAKBtd (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jan 2006 20:49:33 -0500 Received: from mail06.syd.optusnet.com.au ([211.29.132.187]:60603 "EHLO mail06.syd.optusnet.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161076AbWAKBtd (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jan 2006 20:49:33 -0500 From: Con Kolivas To: Martin Bligh Subject: Re: -mm seems significanty slower than mainline on kernbench Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:49:05 +1100 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar , Peter Williams References: <43C45BDC.1050402@google.com> <20060110173159.55cce659.akpm@osdl.org> <43C4624D.4040604@google.com> In-Reply-To: <43C4624D.4040604@google.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200601111249.05881.kernel@kolivas.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:41 pm, Martin Bligh wrote: > Seems to have gone wrong between 2.6.14-rc1-mm1 and 2.6.14-rc2-mm1 ? > See http://test.kernel.org/perf/kernbench.moe.png for clearest effect. The only new scheduler patch at that time was this: +sched-modified-nice-support-for-smp-load-balancing.patch which was Peter's modifications to my smp nice support. cc'ed Peter I guess we need to check whether reversing this patch helps. Con