netdev - Re: This is the fourth time I've tried to find what led to the regression of outgoing network speed and each time I find the merge commit 8c94ccc7cd691472461448f98e2372c75849406c

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Message-ID: <2ae4d3ba-3024-4bfe-8f95-c5c9526cd16f@leemhuis.info>
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2024 15:10:07 +0100
From: "Linux regression tracking (Thorsten Leemhuis)"
 <regressions@...mhuis.info>
To: Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman@...ux.intel.com>,
 Linux regressions mailing list <regressions@...ts.linux.dev>,
 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: "Christian A. Ehrhardt" <lk@...e.de>, niklas.neronin@...ux.intel.com,
 Linux List Kernel Mailing <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
 Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-x86_64@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
 Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
 Mikhail Gavrilov <mikhail.v.gavrilov@...il.com>
Subject: Re: This is the fourth time I've tried to find what led to the
 regression of outgoing network speed and each time I find the merge commit
 8c94ccc7cd691472461448f98e2372c75849406c

On 26.02.24 10:51, Linux regression tracking (Thorsten Leemhuis) wrote:
> On 26.02.24 10:24, Mathias Nyman wrote:
>> On 26.2.2024 7.45, Linux regression tracking (Thorsten Leemhuis) wrote:
>>> On 21.02.24 14:44, Mathias Nyman wrote:
>>>> On 21.2.2024 1.43, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>>>>> On 2/20/24 15:41, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>>>>>> {+ tglx]
>>>>>> On 2/20/24 15:19, Mikhail Gavrilov wrote:
>>>>>>> On Mon, Feb 19, 2024 at 2:41 PM Mikhail Gavrilov
>>>>>>> <mikhail.v.gavrilov@...il.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> I spotted network performance regression and it turned out, this was
>>>>>>> due to the network card getting other interrupt. It is a side effect
>>>>>>> of commit 57e153dfd0e7a080373fe5853c5609443d97fa5a.
>>>>>> That's a merge commit (AFAIK, maybe not so much). The commit in
>>>>>> mainline is:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> commit f977f4c9301c
>>>>>> Author: Niklas Neronin <niklas.neronin@...ux.intel.com>
>>>>>> Date:   Fri Dec 1 17:06:40 2023 +0200
>>>>>>
>>>>>>       xhci: add handler for only one interrupt line
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Installing irqbalance daemon did not help. Maybe someone experienced
>>>>>>> such a problem?
>> This isn't really about those usb xhci patches.
>> This is about which interrupt gets assigned to which CPU.
> I know, but from my understanding of Linus expectations wrt to handling
> regressions it does not matter much if a bug existed earlier or
> somewhere else: what counts is the commit that exposed the problem.

TWIMC, I mentioned this twice in mails to Linus, he didn't get involved,
so I assume things are fine the way they are for him. And then it's of
course totally fine for me, too. :-D

Thx again for all your help and sorry for causing trouble, but in my
line of work these "might or might not be a regression from Linus
viewpoint" sometimes happen.

Ciao, Thorsten

#regzbot resolve: apparently not a regression from Linus viewpoint