From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Galbraith Subject: Re: [tbench regression fixes]: digging out smelly deadmen. Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 09:33:05 +0200 Message-ID: <1224919985.5373.10.camel@marge.simson.net> References: <1224905848.5161.27.camel@marge.simson.net> <20081024.221653.23695396.davem@davemloft.net> <1224914333.3822.18.camel@marge.simson.net> <20081025.001940.251852864.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: rjw@sisk.pl, mingo@elte.hu, s0mbre@tservice.net.ru, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: David Miller Return-path: Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:59489 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751295AbYJYHdJ (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Oct 2008 03:33:09 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20081025.001940.251852864.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 00:19 -0700, David Miller wrote: > From: Mike Galbraith > Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 07:58:53 +0200 > > > I spent long day manweeks trying to bisect and whatnot. It's immune to > > my feeble efforts, and my git-foo. > > I understand, this is what happened to me when I tried to look into > the gradual tbench regressions since 2.6.22 That's exactly what I've been trying to look into, but combined with netperf. The thing is an incredibly twisted maze of _this_ affects _that_... sometimes involving magic and/or mythical creatures. Very very annoying. -Mike