Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 14:51:32 -0800 (PST)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
       Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
       LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
       Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
       Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
       "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Subject: Re: Major regression on hackbench with SLUB (more numbers)
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On Fri, 21 Dec 2007, Christoph Lameter wrote:
>
> Actually thanks for pointing that out Pekka.... Here is a patch that takes 
> the regression almost completely away

Now *this* is what I wanted to see - rather than argue against other 
peoples performance regression reports, an actual patch that acknowledges 
the problem.

Thanks.

And now, can the people who made the problem reports and complained about 
SLUB please test the patch - the ball is now in your court!

		Linus
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