Re: hackbench regression with kernel 2.6.32-rc1

From: Mike Galbraith
Date: Mon Oct 12 2009 - 04:07:12 EST


On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 15:05 +0800, Zhang, Yanmin wrote:

> The good news is only tbench has about 6% regression on Nehalem machines.
> Other regressions such like hackbench/aim7/volanoMark is not clear/big on
> Nehalem. But reverting the original 2 patches don't fix the tbench regression
> on Nehalem machines.

Could be NO_NEXT_BUDDY. NEXT_BUDDY is pretty important for scaling.

-Mike

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