Re: 2.6.19-rc1: Slowdown in lmbench's fork

From: Tim Chen
Date: Thu Nov 02 2006 - 14:23:56 EST


On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 11:33 -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

>
> My only partial guess is that it might be worth adding the per cpu
> variables my patch adds without any of the corresponding code changes.
> And see if adding variables to the per cpu area is what is causing the
> change.
>
> The two tests I can see in this line are:
> - to add the percpu vector_irq variable.
> - to increase NR_IRQs.

Increasing the NR_IRQs resulted in the regression.
Adding the percpu vector_irq variable did not cause any changes.

Tim
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