Re: 2.6.25-rc3-git3: Reported regressions from 2.6.24

From: Balbir Singh
Date: Tue Mar 04 2008 - 22:50:56 EST


Zhang, Yanmin wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 16:57 +0530, Dhaval Giani wrote:
>>> Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9978
>>> Subject : 2.6.25-rc1: volanoMark 45% regression
>>> Submitter : Zhang, Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Date : 2008-02-13 10:30
>>> References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/13/128
>>> Handled-By : Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Balbir Singh <balbir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Peter's revert of the load balance patches should fix this one. Yanmin,
>> could you please confirm if the patch at
>> http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/25/202 helps?
> I tested it against 2.6.25-rc3 on my 16-core tigerton machine. It really improves
> volano result although it doesn't recover all the result.
> Comparing with 2.6.24, without the patch, volanoMark has about 50% regression
> with 2.6.25-rc3. With the patch, volanoMark has about 15% regression.
>

Have you had a chance to git-bisect the culprit after the revert?

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Warm Regards,
Balbir Singh
Linux Technology Center
IBM, ISTL
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