Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754699AbYGLS3R (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Jul 2008 14:29:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751569AbYGLS3G (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Jul 2008 14:29:06 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:36975 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751261AbYGLS3E (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Jul 2008 14:29:04 -0400 Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 11:28:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Arjan van de Ven cc: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?T=F6r=F6k_Edwin?= , Ingo Molnar , Roland McGrath , Thomas Gleixner , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Elias Oltmanns , Oleg Nesterov Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86_64: fix delayed signals In-Reply-To: <20080712111501.30b91f58@infradead.org> Message-ID: References: <20080710215039.2A143154218@magilla.localdomain> <20080711054605.GA17851@elte.hu> <4878883F.10004@gmail.com> <4878B4B5.5060007@gmail.com> <20080712075532.13483b21@infradead.org> <20080712111501.30b91f58@infradead.org> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (LFD 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 727 Lines: 19 On Sat, 12 Jul 2008, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > what I'm seeing is not super new; even 2.6.25 has the behavior already > (and with latencytop it's very visible behavior; before changing the > tunable I see 2+ second delays in user apps, after the tunable change > they're down significantly) Yeah, I think people said it's more visible, and pointed back to 2.6.23 or something being better. So no, I don't think anybody really claimed this as a regression from 25. Linus -- 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/