Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964980AbWALCFY (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jan 2006 21:05:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964982AbWALCFY (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jan 2006 21:05:24 -0500 Received: from smtp-out.google.com ([216.239.45.12]:1621 "EHLO smtp-out.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964981AbWALCFX (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jan 2006 21:05:23 -0500 Message-ID: <43C5B945.3000903@google.com> Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 18:04:53 -0800 From: Martin Bligh User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051011) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Con Kolivas CC: Peter Williams , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: -mm seems significanty slower than mainline on kernbench References: <43C45BDC.1050402@google.com> <43C58117.9080706@bigpond.net.au> <43C5A8C6.1040305@bigpond.net.au> <200601121218.47744.kernel@kolivas.org> In-Reply-To: <200601121218.47744.kernel@kolivas.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 838 Lines: 20 > This is a shot in the dark. We haven't confirmed 1. there is a problem 2. that > this is the problem nor 3. that this patch will fix the problem. I say we > wait for the results of 1. If the improved smp nice handling patch ends up > being responsible then it should not be merged upstream, and then this patch > can be tested on top. > > Martin I know your work move has made it not your responsibility to test > backing out this change, but are you aware of anything being done to test > this hypothesis? Yup, Andy queued the job ... just waiting for it to pop out the system M. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/