Re: -mm seems significanty slower than mainline on kernbench

[Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>]

Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> Peter Williams wrote:
> 
> 
>>Attached is a new patch to fix the excessive idle problem.  This patch
>>takes a new approach to the problem as it was becoming obvious that
>>trying to alter the load balancing code to cope with biased load was
>>harder than it seemed.
> 
> 
> Ok.  Tried testing different-approach-to-smp-nice-problem against the
> transition release 2.6.14-rc2-mm1 but it doesn't apply.  Am testing
> against 2.6.15-mm3 right now.  Will let you know.

Doesn't appear to help if I am analysing the graphs right.  Martin?

Also tried to back out the original patch against the 2.6.15-mm3 tree
but that also won't apply (2 rejects).  Peter?

-apw
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