Re: regression in TSC unstable?

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Fri May 08 2009 - 08:08:20 EST



* Len Brown <lenb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, 8 May 2009, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>
> > The ring-buffer-benchmark module creates a producer and consumer and loops
> > on do_gettimeofday until it hits about 10 seconds. Then it calculates the
> > number of events recorded / time running.
> >
> > After Ingo merged Linus's latest
>
> merged what into what?
> are you referring to the upstream kernel or something else?

he's describing how he found it: a not-yet-upstream kernel-benchmark
module showed a performance regression that came in via upstream.
The regression is upstream too, just harder to notice.

Ingo
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