Re: -mm seems significanty slower than mainline on kernbench

[Peter Williams]

Con Kolivas wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 12:29 pm, Peter Williams wrote:
>
> > Con Kolivas wrote:
> >
> > > This is a shot in the dark. We haven't confirmed 1. there is a problem 2.
> > > that this is the problem nor 3. that this patch will fix the problem.
> >
> > I disagree.  I think that there is a clear mistake in my original patch
> > that this patch fixes.
>
>
> I agree with you on that. The real concern is that we were just about to push 
> it upstream. So where does this leave us?  I propose we delay merging the
> "improved smp nice handling" patch into mainline pending your further 
> changes.

I think that they're already in 2.6.15 minus my "move load not tasks" 
modification which I was expecting to go into 2.6.16.  Is that what you 
meant?

If so I think this is a small and obvious fix that shouldn't delay the 
merging of "move load not tasks" into the mainline.  But it's not my call.

Peter
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Peter Williams                                   pwil3058@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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