Subject: Re: Terrible interactivity with 2.6.0-t9-mm3
From: Gawain Lynch <gawain@freda.homelinux.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: "Prakash K. Cheemplavam" <prakashpublic@gmx.de>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, CaT <cat@zip.com.au>
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On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 08:42, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Two things to try, please:
> 
> a) Is the problem from Linus's tree?  Try 2.6.0-test9 plus 
> 	ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.0-test9/2.6.0-test9-mm3/broken-out/linus.patch
> 
> b) The only significant scheduler change in mm3 was 
> 	ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.0-test9/2.6.0-test9-mm3/broken-out/context-switch-accounting-fix.patch
> 	
>    So please try -mm3 with the above patch reverted with
> 
> 	patch -R -p1 < context-switch-accounting-fix.patch
> 

Hi Andrew,

This is also easily reproducible here with just a kernel compile.

I have tried both a) and b) with b) not changing anything, but a) seems
to work...  Anything more to try?

Gawain

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