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From: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
To: "'Felix Oxley'" <lkml@oxley.org>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: kernel performance update - 2.6.14
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 17:42:54 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200510290042.j9T0gsg28096@unix-os.sc.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4362C255.30600@oxley.org>

Felix Oxley wrote on Friday, October 28, 2005 5:29 PM
> Something went horribly wrong with this test between 2.6.13 and 
> 2.6.13-git2 (it has never recovered):
> 
> System: 4P Itanium
> Test:Result Group 1
> Metric: VolcanoMark
> Result:      -3%         -10%
> Kernel: 2.6.13 vs 2.6.13-git2
> 
> Does anybody know the cause of this?

Search the archive, it was discussed here:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-ia64&m=112683124124723&w=2


It is not because of changes in 2.6.13-git2. It would've shown on
2.6.13-rc1 when default hz rate was switched to 250.  I happened
to audit the system at that time and made the hz switch (from 1000
to 250 and the problem showed up.

More discussion here:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112854723926854&w=2


- Ken


  reply	other threads:[~2005-10-29  0:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-28 23:44 Chen, Kenneth W
2005-10-28 23:54 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-10-28 22:43   ` Jeff V. Merkey
2005-10-29  2:49     ` Nick Piggin
2005-10-29  3:06       ` jmerkey
2005-10-29  3:08         ` jmerkey
2005-10-29  3:15           ` jmerkey
2005-10-29  8:38           ` Nick Piggin
2005-10-29  0:04   ` Chen, Kenneth W
2005-10-29  0:19 ` Felix Oxley
2005-10-29  0:29   ` Felix Oxley
2005-10-29  0:42     ` Chen, Kenneth W [this message]
2005-10-29 11:17       ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2005-10-29  0:29   ` Chen, Kenneth W
2005-11-08  0:04 Chen, Tim C

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