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From: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>
To: John Drescher <drescherjm@gmail.com>
Cc: Damien Wyart <damien.wyart@free.fr>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.35.*: horrible (exponential? >linear) slowdown to unusability (ACPI idle?)
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2010 23:25:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eid3zxd9.fsf@spindle.srvr.nix> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=ioyeBvN_yiHER7imi9tjGKH3E=jQCbO0NeO-z@mail.gmail.com> (John Drescher's message of "Wed, 8 Sep 2010 17:35:48 -0400")

On 8 Sep 2010, John Drescher spake thusly:
> I believe I have the same problem reported in your first post. Or at
> least a lot of the symptoms.
>
> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-842775-postdays-0-postorder-asc-start-0.html

Yeah, that looks mostly the same, though when I see it with
CONFIG_NO_HZ, I get an increasing slowdown to unusability, not instant
sloth as you do. (The WD GreenPower thing is a complete red herring, of
course: if that was the cause of the sloth, it would be slow in other
kernels too. I see this both on machines with -- non-buggy --
GreenPowers behind an Areca RAID array, and on machines with totally
different brands of drives. ToI is likewise a complete red herring.)

  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-08 22:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-05  0:51 2.6.35.*: horrible (exponential? >linear) slowdown to unusability (ACPI idle?) Nix
2010-09-06  5:32 ` Damien Wyart
2010-09-06 20:27   ` Nix
2010-09-07  5:36     ` Damien Wyart
2010-09-08 21:24   ` Nix
2010-09-08 21:35     ` John Drescher
2010-09-08 22:25       ` Nix [this message]
2010-09-09 22:34     ` [BISECTED] 2.6.35.*: horrible (exponential? >linear) slowdown to unusability (HPET) Nix
2010-09-09 23:44       ` John Drescher
2010-09-09 23:57         ` Nix
2010-09-10  0:08           ` John Drescher
2010-09-10  0:14             ` John Drescher
2010-09-10  0:59       ` Artur Skawina
2010-09-10  5:36         ` Damien Wyart
2010-09-10  7:42         ` Nix
2010-09-10  7:47           ` Damien Wyart
2010-09-10  8:37           ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-09-10  9:41             ` Jiri Slaby
2010-09-10 13:22               ` Artur Skawina
2010-09-10 20:13                 ` Nix
2010-09-10 20:12               ` Nix
2010-09-14 10:09             ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-09-14 20:17               ` Nix
2010-09-14 22:18                 ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-09-14 22:23                 ` Artur Skawina

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