Re: -mm seems significanty slower than mainline on kernbench

[Martin Bligh <mbligh@google.com>]

Peter Williams wrote:
> Con Kolivas wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 12:29 pm, Peter Williams wrote:
> >
> > > Con Kolivas wrote:
> > >
> > > > This is a shot in the dark. We haven't confirmed 1. there is a 
> > > > problem 2.
> > > > that this is the problem nor 3. that this patch will fix the problem.
> > >
> > >
> > > I disagree.  I think that there is a clear mistake in my original patch
> > > that this patch fixes.
> >
> >
> >
> > I agree with you on that. The real concern is that we were just about 
> > to push it upstream. So where does this leave us?  I propose we delay 
> > merging the
> > "improved smp nice handling" patch into mainline pending your further 
> > changes.
>
>
> I think that they're already in 2.6.15 minus my "move load not tasks" 
> modification which I was expecting to go into 2.6.16.  Is that what you 
> meant?
>
> If so I think this is a small and obvious fix that shouldn't delay the 
> merging of "move load not tasks" into the mainline.  But it's not my call.

BTW, in reference to a question from last night ... -git7 seems fine. So
if you merged it already, it wasn't that ;-)

M.
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