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2.6.35 merge window -- performance regression

Posted Jun 1, 2010 9:48 UTC (Tue) by leonov (subscriber, #6295)
Parent article: 2.6.35 merge window part 3

Phoronix published some interesting regressions on the 2.6.35 kernel. I'm sure it's being dealt with, I just found it a nice example of the value of automated testing.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=li...

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Posted Jun 1, 2010 11:19 UTC (Tue) by patrick_g (subscriber, #44470) [Link]

Perhaps you will be interested by these 3 posts on the LKML:

http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/5/31/415
http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/6/1/4
http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/6/1/45

2.6.35 merge window -- performance regression

Posted Jun 1, 2010 21:47 UTC (Tue) by einstein (subscriber, #2052) [Link]

Ingo's response was the wisest and most reasonable. The others sounded rather defensive.

2.6.35 merge window -- performance regression

Posted Jun 8, 2010 0:12 UTC (Tue) by mlankhorst (subscriber, #52260) [Link]

If you ever read phoronix you would agree with airlied :)