From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422930AbWAMUmD (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jan 2006 15:42:03 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422938AbWAMUmD (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jan 2006 15:42:03 -0500 Received: from smtp-out.google.com ([216.239.45.12]:23427 "EHLO smtp-out.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422930AbWAMUl7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jan 2006 15:41:59 -0500 Message-ID: <43C81073.1040805@google.com> Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 12:41:23 -0800 From: Martin Bligh User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051011) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andy Whitcroft CC: Peter Williams , Con Kolivas , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: -mm seems significanty slower than mainline on kernbench References: <43C45BDC.1050402@google.com> <43C4A3E9.1040301@google.com> <43C4F8EE.50208@bigpond.net.au> <200601120129.16315.kernel@kolivas.org> <43C58117.9080706@bigpond.net.au> <43C5A8C6.1040305@bigpond.net.au> <43C6A24E.9080901@google.com> <43C6B60E.2000003@bigpond.net.au> <43C6D636.8000105@bigpond.net.au> <43C75178.80809@bigpond.net.au> <43C7D4D1.10200@shadowen.org> <43C7E96D.7000003@shadowen.org> In-Reply-To: <43C7E96D.7000003@shadowen.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andy Whitcroft wrote: > Andy Whitcroft wrote: > >>Peter Williams wrote: >> >> >> >>>Attached is a new patch to fix the excessive idle problem. This patch >>>takes a new approach to the problem as it was becoming obvious that >>>trying to alter the load balancing code to cope with biased load was >>>harder than it seemed. >> >> >>Ok. Tried testing different-approach-to-smp-nice-problem against the >>transition release 2.6.14-rc2-mm1 but it doesn't apply. Am testing >>against 2.6.15-mm3 right now. Will let you know. > > > Doesn't appear to help if I am analysing the graphs right. Martin? Nope. still broken. > Also tried to back out the original patch against the 2.6.15-mm3 tree > but that also won't apply (2 rejects). Peter? > > -apw