linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.35.*: horrible (exponential? >linear) slowdown to unusability (ACPI idle?)

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Message-ID: <87iq2gyllg.fsf@spindle.srvr.nix>
Date:	Wed, 08 Sep 2010 22:24:59 +0100
From:	Nix <nix@...eri.org.uk>
To:	Damien Wyart <damien.wyart@...e.fr>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.35.*: horrible (exponential? >linear) slowdown to unusability (ACPI idle?)

On 6 Sep 2010, Damien Wyart uttered the following:
> So if you can reproduce it quite easily, I guess bisection (even

ha ha ha. I thought I could, but it's intermittent enough to make
bisection pretty much impossible, and when I gave up and rebooted back
into 2.6.35.4 the bug went away entirely.

I don't think bisection will work with something this intermittent :/
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