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From: tmhikaru@gmail.com
To: Florian Mickler <florian@mickler.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>,
	Chase Douglas <chase.douglas@canonical.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: Unusually high load average when idle in 2.6.35, 2.6.35.1 and later
Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2010 13:10:15 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101003170912.GA18972@roll> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101003122143.69cd3b9a@schatten.dmk.lab>

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On Sun, Oct 03, 2010 at 12:21:43PM +0200, Florian Mickler wrote:
> Don't apologize, it's heroic. Do you still see the performance
> regression you reported in your original bug report? I don't exactly
> know if you are at the moment just talking about the bisected commit or
> if the performance regression you saw earlier was just some cosmic ray
> kind of thing...
> 
> If the load-average thing was just a red herring, it would probably
>  still be worthwile to bisect the performance regression.

No, I do not see the performance regression anymore, which is why I did all
that extra testing with the timed compiles - it proves that somewhere along
the line I made a mistake, and tricked myself into believing the load
average glitch *also* was causing performance issues. I was wrong.

Given I only started digging into the problem as far as I did because I
thought it was slowing things down, it's annoying. However, at least I did
find a real problem.

Tim McGrath

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-03 17:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-01  3:53 PROBLEM: Unusually high load average when idle in 2.6.35, 2.6.35.1 and later tmhikaru
2010-10-01  9:48 ` tmhikaru
2010-10-03  3:02   ` tmhikaru
2010-10-03  8:41     ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-10-03 10:12       ` Florian Mickler
2010-10-03 12:04         ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-10-03 17:18           ` tmhikaru
2010-10-11  1:09             ` tmhikaru
2010-10-03 10:21     ` Florian Mickler
2010-10-03 17:10       ` tmhikaru [this message]
2010-10-01 18:09 ` Greg KH

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