linux-kernel - Re: Serious performance regression in Wine applications and Linux 2.6.24.*

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Date:	Sun, 23 Mar 2008 10:44:06 +0000
From:	David <david@...olicited.net>
To:	Kai <epimetreus@...tmail.fm>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Serious performance regression in Wine applications and Linux
 2.6.24.*

Kai wrote:
> Performance degrades by about 60% when I run Wine under any of the
> 2.6.24.* kernels. Attached are the output of lspci -vv and the two
> config files of each kernel.
>
> I upgraded to 2.6.24, back to 2.6.23.(not sure), then tried 2.6.24.1 and
> 2.6.24.3 and the issue is present in both; it's severe enough that Wine
> apps are virtually unusable for me with this version of the kernel; I'm
> having to use 2.6.23 until this somehow is resolved.
>
> I'd like some help figuring out why this performance regression exists,
> and what can be done to mitigate it.
>
> Please CC replies; I'm not on the list.
>   
This is strange, as my (two) Windows apps ran (and run) just fine under 
2.6.24 (and now under 2.6.25-rc6). Could you specify the applications 
you're having problems with?

David
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