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Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 17:54:45 +1100
From: Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au>
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To: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
CC: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@mbligh.org>, Martin Bligh <mbligh@google.com>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, apw@shadowen.org
Subject: Re: -mm seems significanty slower than mainline on kernbench
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Con Kolivas wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 05:35 pm, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> 
>>Martin Bligh 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 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?
>>
>>OK, backing out that patch seems to fix it. Thanks Andy ;-)
> 
> 
> Yes thanks!
> 
> I just noticed the result myself and emailed on another branch of this email 
> thread. Gah

It would nice to get a run with the patch back in and my fix applied.

Peter
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Peter Williams                                   pwil3058@bigpond.net.au

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