Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964907AbWAWT3a (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jan 2006 14:29:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964911AbWAWT3a (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jan 2006 14:29:30 -0500 Received: from smtp-out.google.com ([216.239.45.12]:19114 "EHLO smtp-out.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964907AbWAWT33 (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jan 2006 14:29:29 -0500 Message-ID: <43D52E6F.7040808@google.com> Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 11:28:47 -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 , Andy Whitcroft Subject: Re: -mm seems significanty slower than mainline on kernbench References: <43C45BDC.1050402@google.com> <43C5BD8F.3000307@bigpond.net.au> <43C5BE4A.9030105@google.com> <200601121739.17886.kernel@kolivas.org> In-Reply-To: <200601121739.17886.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: 928 Lines: 26 > Thanks and looks like the results are in from 2.6.14-rc2-mm1 with the patch > backed out. > > Drumroll.... > > http://test.kernel.org/perf/kernbench.moe.png > > The performance goes back to a range similar to 2.6.14-rc1-mm1 (see > 2.6.14-rc2-mm1 + 20328 in blue). Unfortunately this does implicate this > patch. Can we put it back into -mm only and allow Peter's tweaks/fixes to go > on top and have it tested some more before going upstream? Hmm. Looks like we didn't get this as fixed up as I thought. Moe seems to be fixed (16x NUMA-Q), but elm3b132 is not (it's 4x, flat SMP ia32). Look at the latest graphs .... Is it possible it only got fixed for NUMA boxes? 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/