Re: VolanoMark regression with 2.6.27-rc1

From: adobriyan
Date: Wed Aug 20 2008 - 10:31:00 EST


On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 03:32:17PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 12:51 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > * Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > And I must admit to having overlooked the effect on wake_affine..
> > >
> > > Chris, could you see the effect of this on smp group fairness?
>
> Just realized my brainfart..
>
> ---
> Subject: sched: load-balance bias fixes
> From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed Aug 20 15:28:51 CEST 2008
>
> Yanmin spotted a regression with my patch that introduces LB_BIAS:
>
> commit 93b75217df39e6d75889cc6f8050343286aff4a5
> Author: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Fri Jun 27 13:41:33 2008 +0200
>
> And I just spotted the brainfart - I should have replaced min/max with avg
> instead of removing it completely.

> --- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/kernel.h
> +++ linux-2.6/include/linux/kernel.h
> @@ -367,6 +367,12 @@ static inline char *pack_hex_byte(char *
> (void) (&_max1 == &_max2); \
> _max1 > _max2 ? _max1 : _max2; })
>
> +#define avg(x, y) ({ \
> + typeof(x) _avg1 = ((x)+1)/2; \
> + typeof(x) _avg2 = ((y)+1)/2; \

ITYM, typeof(y)

> + (void) (&_avg1 == &_avg2); \
> + _avg1 + _avg2; })

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