linux-kernel - Re: [git pull] scheduler fixes

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Date:	Sat, 17 Jan 2009 07:29:36 +0100
From:	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [git pull] scheduler fixes

On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 20:40 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:24:07 +0100 Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 12:15 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > On Sun, 11 Jan 2009 15:43:05 +0100
> > > Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Please pull the latest sched-fixes-for-linus git tree
> > > 
> > > In http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12309 the reporters have
> > > identified what appears to be a sched-related performance regression. 
> > > A fairly long-term one - post-2.6.18, perhaps.
> > > 
> > > Testcase code has been added today.  Could someone please take a look
> > > sometime?
> > 
> > There appear to be two different bug reports in there. One about iowait,
> > and one I'm not quite sure what it is about.
> > 
> > The second thing shows some numbers and a test case, but I fail to see
> > what the problem is with it.
> 
> I had no problem seeing the problem: a gigantic performance regression
> in two CPU-scheduler intensive workloads.

I can reproduce a very bad latency hit, investigating.

	-Mike

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