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From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: jmerkey <jmerkey@utah-nac.org>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
	"Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Subject: Re: kernel performance update - 2.6.14
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 18:38:31 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43633507.2050006@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4362E7B3.6020509@utah-nac.org>

jmerkey wrote:
> jmerkey wrote:

>> Yes I did. The list wasn't too long. I had problems with RCU messages 
>> and irq warn messages at very high loads and init respawning itself 
>> subjected to loads > 369 MB/S to the disk channels on 2.6.13. 
>> Performance was down on disk I/O [vs.] 2.6.9. I did not investigate 
>> the BIO fixes but something changed there. Theres also some memory 
>> problems with corruption somewhere in the 2.6.14 (during module unload 
>> and shutdown).
>>

Well that doesn't sound too good. It would be good if you could document
and report each problem - the messages, workload, kernel config and any
patches used, etc. And post them to lkml. Hopefully they can get sorted
out.

Thanks,
Nick

-- 
SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-10-29  8:36 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 [this message]
2005-10-29  0:04   ` Chen, Kenneth W
2005-10-29  0:19 ` Felix Oxley
2005-10-29  0:29   ` Felix Oxley
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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