Re: hackbench regression with kernel 2.6.32-rc1

From: Mike Galbraith
Date: Mon Oct 12 2009 - 10:35:30 EST


On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 16:21 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> Mike, did we ever figure out _why_ NEXT_BUDDY introduced latencies?

No, I haven't gotten around to poking at that yet. I'll try that x264
thing, IIRC, NEXT_BUDDY hurt it pretty badly.

> Buddies shouldn't make latencies worse than regular while(1); loops
> would.

Yeah, no idea what's going wrong.

-Mike

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