linux-kernel - Re: AIM7 40% regression with 2.6.26-rc1

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Message-ID: <20080506174521.19becefd@core>
Date:	Tue, 6 May 2008 17:45:21 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...i.umich.edu>,
	"Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@...ux.intel.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: AIM7 40% regression with 2.6.26-rc1

On Tue, 6 May 2008 10:51:12 -0600
Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx> wrote:

> On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 05:39:48PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > > Hmm?
> > > 
> > > So that find_conflict doesn't end up in the first column, which causes
> > > diff to treat it as a function name for the purposes of the @@ lines.
> > 
> > Please can we just fix the tools not mangle the kernel to work around
> > silly bugs ?
> 
> The people who control the tools refuse to fix them.

That would be their problem. We should refuse to mash the kernel up
because they aren't doing their job. If need be someone can fork a
private git-patch.
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