Re: volano ~30% regression with 2.6.33-rc1 & -rc2

From: Mike Galbraith
Date: Mon Jan 04 2010 - 21:44:53 EST


On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 08:44 +0800, Lin Ming wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-01-04 at 20:40 +0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > On Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:15:58 +0800
> > Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > Mike & Peter,
> > >
> > > Compared with 2.6.32, volano has ~30% regression with 2.6.33-rc1 &
> > > -rc2. Testing machine: Tigerton Xeon, 16cpus(4P/4Core), 16G memory
> >
> > did this show up only on this cpu?
> > (since this is a multi-core-without-shared-cache cpu, it could be that
> > we get the topology wrong and think cores share cache where they don't)
>
> Tulsa machine(16cpus, 4P/2Core/HT) also has ~8% regression
> and it's now fixed by Mike's patch.

Excellent. Thanks for testing.

-Mike

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