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Message-ID: <1275353211.29006.9.camel@lithium.local.net>
Date:	Tue, 01 Jun 2010 01:46:51 +0100
From:	Alex Buell <alex.buell@...ted.org.uk>
To:	Mailing Lists - Kernel Developers <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Article in Phoronix about loss of performance in 2.6.35
 release candidates

On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 17:39 -0600, Robert Hancock wrote:
> On 05/31/2010 05:19 PM, Alex Buell wrote:
> > http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=14976
> >
> > Question: Why?
> 
> Good question.. I guess it would too much to ask of them to try to 
> figure out what area the problem lies in (even to the point of figuring 
> out if it's a CPU or IO-bound problem), or try to bisect, or at least 
> report it to LKML before going to the trouble of creating 5 pages of 
> graphs.. Given the 20x slowdown in some of the benchmarks you'd think it 
> wouldn't be too hard to narrow down.

What I really don't get is why they didn't talk to people on
linux-kernel before posting those claims on phoronix. :S 
-- 
http://www.munted.org.uk

One very high maintenance cat living here.
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