linux-kernel - Re: sched : performance regression 24% between 4.4rc4 and 4.3 kernel

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Date:	Mon, 14 Dec 2015 21:12:37 -0500
From:	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
To:	Jirka Hladky <jhladky@...hat.com>,
	Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: sched : performance regression 24% between 4.4rc4 and 4.3 kernel

On 12/14/2015 06:52 PM, Jirka Hladky wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have the results of bisecting:
> 
> first bad commit: [973759c80db96ed4b4c5cb85ac7d48107f801371] Merge tag
> 'v4.3-rc1' into sched/core, to refresh the branch
> 
> Could you please have a look at this commit why it has caused the
> performance regression when running 4 stream benchmarks in parallel on 4
> NUMA node server? 

That is a merge commit. It contains no actual code changes.

> Please let me know if you need additional data. git bisect log is bellow. 

It looks like "git bisect" may have led you astray.

I am not sure what debugging tool to use to figure out which
of the patches from some merged-in branch caused the issue,
but hopefully one of the people reading this email know a trick.

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