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

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Message-Id: <1206310206.17373.1243881033@webmail.messagingengine.com>
Date:	Sun, 23 Mar 2008 15:10:06 -0700
From:	"Kai" <epimetreus@...tmail.fm>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Serious performance regression in Wine applications and Linux
   2.6.24.*

Originally, it was just about everything -- Wine itself, and most any
app I tried to run with it.

In my most recent tests, however, it only seems to affect Age of Wonders
II and Age of Wonders Shadow Magic, which use very similar engines.

On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 10:44:06 +0000, "David" <david@...olicited.net>
said:
> 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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