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

From: Robin Holt
Date: Tue Mar 23 2010 - 15:22:30 EST


On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 07:25:43PM +0100, Anton Starikov wrote:
> On Mar 23, 2010, at 7:21 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >> 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?
>
> Hm. I tried, but when I do "make oldconfig", then it gets rewritten, so I assume that it conflicts with some other setting from default fedora kernel config. trying to figure out which one exactly.

Have you tracked this down yet? I just got the patches applied against
an older kernel and am running into the same issue.

Thanks,
Robin
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