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Message-ID: <ZmVixS7tG9-sf9l2@hovoldconsulting.com>
Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2024 10:07:33 +0200
From: Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Laight <David.Laight@...lab.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 6.10-rc2 - massive performance regression

On Sat, Jun 08, 2024 at 03:00:43PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sat, 8 Jun 2024 at 14:36, David Laight <David.Laight@...lab.com> wrote:

> > I've done some tests.
> > I'm seeing a three-fold slow down on:
> > $ i=0; while [ $i -lt 1000000 ]; do i=$((i + 1)); done
> > which goes from 1 second to 3.
> >
> > I can run that with ftrace monitoring scheduler events (and a few
> > other things) and can't spot anywhere the process isn't running
> > for a significant time.
> 
> Sounds like cpu frequency. Almost certainly hw-specific. I went
> through that on my Threadripper in the 6.9 timeframe, but I'm not
> seeing any issues in this current release.
> 
> If you bisect it, we have somebody to blame and point fingers at...

This may possibly be related to the cpufreq/thermal regression I just
reported here:

	https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ZmVfcEOxmjUHZTSX@hovoldconsulting.com/

which causes the big cores on the Lenovo ThinkPad X13s to be stuck at a
low frequency once they've been throttled.

Johan

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