Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964988AbWALC0h (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jan 2006 21:26:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932678AbWALC0h (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jan 2006 21:26:37 -0500 Received: from smtp-out.google.com ([216.239.45.12]:41074 "EHLO smtp-out.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932676AbWALC0g (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jan 2006 21:26:36 -0500 Message-ID: <43C5BE4A.9030105@google.com> Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 18:26:18 -0800 From: Martin Bligh User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051011) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Williams CC: Con Kolivas , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: -mm seems significanty slower than mainline on kernbench References: <43C45BDC.1050402@google.com> <200601121218.47744.kernel@kolivas.org> <43C5B0F6.5090500@bigpond.net.au> <200601121236.07522.kernel@kolivas.org> <43C5BD8F.3000307@bigpond.net.au> In-Reply-To: <43C5BD8F.3000307@bigpond.net.au> 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: 1344 Lines: 40 Peter Williams wrote: > Con Kolivas wrote: > >> On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 12:29 pm, Peter Williams wrote: >> >>> Con Kolivas wrote: >>> >>>> 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 disagree. I think that there is a clear mistake in my original patch >>> that this patch fixes. >> >> >> >> I agree with you on that. The real concern is that we were just about >> to push it upstream. So where does this leave us? I propose we delay >> merging the >> "improved smp nice handling" patch into mainline pending your further >> changes. > > > I think that they're already in 2.6.15 minus my "move load not tasks" > modification which I was expecting to go into 2.6.16. Is that what you > meant? > > If so I think this is a small and obvious fix that shouldn't delay the > merging of "move load not tasks" into the mainline. But it's not my call. BTW, in reference to a question from last night ... -git7 seems fine. So if you merged it already, it wasn't that ;-) 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/