Subject: Re: Industry db benchmark result on recent 2.6 kernels
From: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
To: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Cc: "'Andrew Morton'" <akpm@osdl.org>,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
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Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 11:50:16 -0800
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On Mon, 2005-03-28 at 11:33 -0800, Chen, Kenneth W wrote:
> We will be taking db benchmark measurements more frequently from now on with
> latest kernel from kernel.org (and make these measurements on a fixed interval).
> By doing this, I hope to achieve two things: one is to track base kernel
> performance on a regular base; secondly, which is more important in my opinion,
> is to create a better communication flow to the kernel developers and to keep
> all interested party well informed on the kernel performance for this enterprise
> workload.

I'd guess that doing it on kernel.org is too late, sometimes.  How high
is the overhead of doing a test?  Would you be able to test each -mm
release?  It's somewhat easier to toss something out of -mm for
re-review than it is out of Linus's tree.

-- Dave

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