Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

Barry K. Nathan
2005-04-06T07:19:42Z

On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 05:56:00PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Odd.

Yes, it is odd...

> > 2.6.11-bk9 works (actually it takes under 2 seconds, not 5-10).
> > 2.6.11-bk10 has the weird slowdown.
>
> Unfortunately that's a pretty bug diff (2 megs).

Yeah, I know. *sigh*

[snip]
> but you'd be getting a printk storm if that was triggering.

I'm not seeing a printk storm, at least, none that I can discern...

> > I'll see if I can isolate it any further.
>
> Please, that would help.

I'm working on it right now.

2.6.11 + linus.patch from 2.6.11-mm3 works.
2.6.11 + approx. 292 patches from 2.6.11-mm3 is broken.
2.6.11 + approx. 130 patches (a proper subset of the 292 patches) works.

(this is counting each subsystem bk tree as a single patch)

The diff between the latter two trees is still larger than the
2.6.11-bk9 -> -bk10 diff, but after one or two more iterations of
(psuedo-)binary search, it should be much smaller.

I'm planning to go as far as I can before going to bed tonight.

-Barry K. Nathan <barryn@pobox.com>