Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758952Ab1DPKJL (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Apr 2011 06:09:11 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:48466 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751057Ab1DPKJE convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Apr 2011 06:09:04 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] perf, x86: Fix event scheduler to solve complex scheduling problems From: Peter Zijlstra To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Robert Richter , Stephane Eranian , LKML , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fr=E9d=E9ric?= Weisbecker In-Reply-To: <20110416094348.GA24711@elte.hu> References: <1302913676-14352-1-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.com> <1302913676-14352-5-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.com> <1302943877.32491.9.camel@twins> <20110416094348.GA24711@elte.hu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2011 12:08:40 +0200 Message-ID: <1302948520.32491.10.camel@twins> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.30.3 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 687 Lines: 13 On Sat, 2011-04-16 at 11:43 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > I'd also prefer if we first had actual testcases in 'perf test' for all these > failures - it took an *awfully* long time to find these regressions (the event > scheduler code has been committed for months), while with proper testcases it > would only take a second to run 'perf test'. These cases only exist on AMD F15, I don't think there's many people with such systems around. -- 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/