From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751581Ab0FAArE (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 May 2010 20:47:04 -0400 Received: from v-smtp-auth-relay-6.gradwell.net ([79.135.125.112]:48815 "EHLO v-smtp-auth-relay-6.gradwell.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751236Ab0FAArB convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 May 2010 20:47:01 -0400 Subject: Re: Article in Phoronix about loss of performance in 2.6.35 release candidates From: Alex Buell Reply-To: alex.buell@munted.org.uk To: Mailing Lists - Kernel Developers In-Reply-To: <4C0448B5.7090904@gmail.com> References: <1275347969.29006.5.camel@lithium.local.net> <4C0448B5.7090904@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Organization: One very high maintenance cat for company Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2010 01:46:51 +0100 Message-ID: <1275353211.29006.9.camel@lithium.local.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.3.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 17:39 -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: > On 05/31/2010 05:19 PM, Alex Buell wrote: > > http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=14976 > > > > Question: Why? > > Good question.. I guess it would too much to ask of them to try to > figure out what area the problem lies in (even to the point of figuring > out if it's a CPU or IO-bound problem), or try to bisect, or at least > report it to LKML before going to the trouble of creating 5 pages of > graphs.. Given the 20x slowdown in some of the benchmarks you'd think it > wouldn't be too hard to narrow down. What I really don't get is why they didn't talk to people on linux-kernel before posting those claims on phoronix. :S -- http://www.munted.org.uk One very high maintenance cat living here.