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From: Felix Oxley <lkml@oxley.org>
To: Felix Oxley <lkml@oxley.org>
Cc: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kernel performance update - 2.6.14
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 01:29:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4362C255.30600@oxley.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4362BFFC.9050202@oxley.org>

Felix Oxley wrote:
> Chen, Kenneth W wrote:
>  > Kernel performance data for 2.6.14 (released yesterday) is updated at:
>  > http://kernel-perf.sourceforge.net
>  >
>  > As expected, results are within run variation compares to 2.6.14-rc5.
>  > No significant deviation found compare to 2.6.14-rc5
>  >
> 
> There seems to be some regression here:
> 
> System: 4P Xeon
> Test:Result Group 8
> Metric: 64KB_4_fread
> Result:      +1.9%         -15%
> Kernel: 2.6.14-rc4 vs 2.6.14-rc4-git4
> 
> System: 2P Xeon
> Test:Result Group 7
> Metric: ODIRECT
> Kernel: 2.6.14-rc5 vs 2.6.14-rc5-git3
> Summary: Write has increased whereas Read has decreased by 4-5 %
> 
> 

Something went horribly wrong with this test between 2.6.13 and 
2.6.13-git2 (it has never recovered):

System: 4P Itanium
Test:Result Group 1
Metric: VolcanoMark
Result:      -3%         -10%
Kernel: 2.6.13 vs 2.6.13-git2

Does anybody know the cause of this?

regards,
Felix

  reply	other threads:[~2005-10-29  0:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-28 23:44 kernel performance update - 2.6.14 Chen, Kenneth W
2005-10-28 23:54 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-10-28 22:43   ` Jeff V. Merkey
2005-10-29  2:49     ` Nick Piggin
2005-10-29  3:06       ` jmerkey
2005-10-29  3:08         ` jmerkey
2005-10-29  3:15           ` jmerkey
2005-10-29  8:38           ` Nick Piggin
2005-10-29  0:04   ` Chen, Kenneth W
2005-10-29  0:19 ` Felix Oxley
2005-10-29  0:29   ` Felix Oxley [this message]
2005-10-29  0:42     ` Chen, Kenneth W
2005-10-29 11:17       ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2005-10-29  0:29   ` Chen, Kenneth W
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-11-08  0:04 Chen, Tim C

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