From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932687AbWALGl1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jan 2006 01:41:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932690AbWALGl0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jan 2006 01:41:26 -0500 Received: from mail13.syd.optusnet.com.au ([211.29.132.194]:32198 "EHLO mail13.syd.optusnet.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932687AbWALGl0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jan 2006 01:41:26 -0500 From: Con Kolivas To: "Martin J. Bligh" Subject: Re: -mm seems significanty slower than mainline on kernbench Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 17:41:35 +1100 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.3 Cc: Martin Bligh , Peter Williams , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar , apw@shadowen.org References: <43C45BDC.1050402@google.com> <43C5B945.3000903@google.com> <43C5F8C8.60908@mbligh.org> In-Reply-To: <43C5F8C8.60908@mbligh.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200601121741.36042.kernel@kolivas.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 05:35 pm, Martin J. Bligh wrote: > Martin Bligh wrote: > >> This is a shot in the dark. We haven't confirmed 1. there is a > >> problem 2. that this is the problem nor 3. that this patch will fix > >> the problem. I say we wait for the results of 1. If the improved smp > >> nice handling patch ends up being responsible then it should not be > >> merged upstream, and then this patch can be tested on top. > >> > >> Martin I know your work move has made it not your responsibility to > >> test backing out this change, but are you aware of anything being > >> done to test this hypothesis? > > OK, backing out that patch seems to fix it. Thanks Andy ;-) Yes thanks! I just noticed the result myself and emailed on another branch of this email thread. Gah Con