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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: "Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Subject: Re: aim7 -30% regression in 2.6.24-rc1
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 13:23:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071026112307.GA30406@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1193391787.3019.174.camel@ymzhang>


* Zhang, Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com> wrote:

> I tested 2.6.24-rc1 on my x86_64 machine which has 2 quad-core processors.
> 
> Comparing with 2.6.23, aim7 has about -30% regression. I did a bisect 
> and found patch 
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=b5869ce7f68b233ceb81465a7644be0d9a5f3dbb 
> caused the issue.

weird, that's a commit diff - i.e. it changes no code.

> kbuild/SPECjbb2000/SPECjbb2005 also has big regressions. On my another 
> tigerton machine (4 quad-core processors), SPECjbb2005 has more than 
> -40% regression. I didn't do a bisect on such benchmark testing, but I 
> suspect the root cause is like aim7's.

these two commits might be relevant:

  7a6c6bcee029a978f866511d6e41dbc7301fde4c
  95dbb421d12fdd9796ed153853daf3679809274f

but a bisection result would be the best info.

	Ingo

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-10-26 11:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-26  9:43 aim7 -30% regression in 2.6.24-rc1 Zhang, Yanmin
2007-10-26  9:53 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-10-29  0:15   ` Zhang, Yanmin
2007-10-26 11:23 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2007-10-29  2:22   ` Zhang, Yanmin
2007-10-29  9:37     ` Zhang, Yanmin
2007-10-30  2:12       ` Zhang, Yanmin
2007-10-30  7:26         ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-30  8:36           ` Zhang, Yanmin
2007-10-31  9:57             ` Zhang, Yanmin
2007-10-31 10:30               ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-11-01  8:58                 ` Ingo Molnar
     [not found]                   ` <1193922687.27652.279.camel@twins>
     [not found]                     ` <20071101150049.GB4044@elte.hu>
2007-11-01 15:29                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-11-01 15:36                         ` Ingo Molnar
2007-11-01  9:34               ` Zhang, Yanmin
2007-11-01 10:02                 ` Cyrus Massoumi
2007-11-05  1:24                   ` Zhang, Yanmin
2007-11-05  9:37                     ` Cyrus Massoumi
2007-11-07  5:30                       ` Zhang, Yanmin

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