Re: AIM7 40% regression with 2.6.26-rc1

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Thu May 08 2008 - 00:17:51 EST




On Thu, 8 May 2008, Zhang, Yanmin wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 20:29 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >
> > That said, "idle 0%" is easy when you spin. Do you also have actual
> > performance numbers?
>
> Yes. My conclusion is based on the actual number. cpu idle 0% is just
> a behavior it should be.

Thanks, that's all I wanted to verify.

I'll leave this overnight, and see if somebody has come up with some smart
and wonderful patch. And if not, I think I'll apply mine as "known to fix
a regression", and we can perhaps then improve on things further from
there.

Linus
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