Subject: AIM7 40% regression with 2.6.26-rc1
Newsgroups: gmane.linux.kernel
Date: 2008-05-06 05:48:24 GMT (1 year, 8 weeks, 2 days, 22 hours and 16 minutes ago)
Comparing with kernel 2.6.25, AIM7 (use tmpfs) has more than 40% with 2.6.26-rc1
on my 8-core stoakley, 16-core tigerton, and Itanium Montecito. Bisect located
below patch.
64ac24e738823161693bf791f87adc802cf529ff is first bad commit
commit 64ac24e738823161693bf791f87adc802cf529ff
Author: Matthew Wilcox <matthew <at> wil.cx>
Date: Fri Mar 7 21:55:58 2008 -0500
Generic semaphore implementation
After I manually reverted the patch against 2.6.26-rc1 while fixing lots of
conflictions/errors, aim7 regression became less than 2%.
-yanmin