Re: Article in Phoronix about loss of performance in 2.6.35 release candidates

From: Pekka Enberg
Date: Tue Jun 01 2010 - 01:00:45 EST


On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 7:10 AM, <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 12:19:29AM +0100, Alex Buell wrote:
>> http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=14976
>>
>> Question: Why?
>
> One of the theories that has been advanced is that it's simply this
> problem:
>
>        http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/5/22/154
>
> If so, it points out how idiotic Phoronix is about not being able to
> notice udev pegging the CPU at 100% being someone bad for its
> benchmark runs.  :-)
>
> OTOH, this bug has been known for over a week, and it is sort sad that
> we haven't reverted this patch.  It looks like the conversation has
> died, but without a fix?

It's fixed by 1eb2cbb6d5efe129 so the problem doesn't exist for 2.6.35-r1.
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