Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752880AbYJYHUV (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Oct 2008 03:20:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751673AbYJYHUE (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Oct 2008 03:20:04 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:54499 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751581AbYJYHUC (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Oct 2008 03:20:02 -0400 Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 00:19:40 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20081025.001940.251852864.davem@davemloft.net> To: efault@gmx.de Cc: rjw@sisk.pl, mingo@elte.hu, s0mbre@tservice.net.ru, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [tbench regression fixes]: digging out smelly deadmen. From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <1224914333.3822.18.camel@marge.simson.net> References: <1224905848.5161.27.camel@marge.simson.net> <20081024.221653.23695396.davem@davemloft.net> <1224914333.3822.18.camel@marge.simson.net> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.1 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 681 Lines: 16 From: Mike Galbraith Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 07:58:53 +0200 > I spent long day manweeks trying to bisect and whatnot. It's immune to > my feeble efforts, and my git-foo. I understand, this is what happened to me when I tried to look into the gradual tbench regressions since 2.6.22 I guess the only way to attack these things is to analyze the code and make some debugging hacks to get some measurements and numbers. -- 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/