Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:24:54 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>, Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>,
       Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Subject: Re: BFS vs. mainline scheduler benchmarks and measurements
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* Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> wrote:

> On Tuesday 08 September 2009 09:48:25 Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > Mind poking on this one to figure out whether it's all repeatable 
> > and why that slowdown happens?
> 
> I repeated the test several times, because I couldn't really believe 
> that there's such a big difference for me, but the results were the 
> same. I don't really know what's going on nor how to find out what's 
> going on.

Well that's a really memory constrained MIPS device with like 16 MB of 
RAM or so? So having effects from small things like changing details in 
a kernel image is entirely plausible.

	Ingo
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