Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 15618] New: 2.6.18->2.6.32->2.6.33 hugeregression in performance

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Tue Mar 23 2010 - 14:23:10 EST


On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 19:03:36 +0100
Anton Starikov <ant.starikov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> On Mar 23, 2010, at 7:00 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >> NOTE! None of those are in 2.6.33 - they were merged afterwards. But they
> >> are in 2.6.34-rc1 (and obviously current -git). So Anton would have to
> >> compile his own kernel to test his load.
> >
> > another option is to run the rawhide kernel via something like:
> >
> > yum update --enablerepo=development kernel
> >
> > this will give kernel-2.6.34-0.13.rc1.git1.fc14.x86_64, which has those
> > changes included.
>
> I will apply this commits to 2.6.32, I afraid current OFED (which I need also) will not work on 2.6.33+.
>

You should be able to simply set CONFIG_RWSEM_GENERIC_SPINLOCK=n,
CONFIG_RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM=y by hand, as I mentioned earlier?
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