Re: 2.6.19-rc4: known unfixed regressions (v3)

[Eric W. Biederman]

Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

>
> Subject    : x86_64: NR_IRQ increase causes 11.5% slowdown
>                      in lmbench's fork benchmark
> References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/11/2/192
> Submitter  : Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Caused-By  : Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>              commit 550f2299ac8ffaba943cf211380d3a8d3fa75301
> Handled-By : Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>              Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>
> Status     : problem is being debugged

Currently I'm at a loss why the cross cpu fork lm_bench numbers should get
worse when you simply double NR_IRQS.  As far as I can determine nothing
on that code path is directly affected by that change.

Eric
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