Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:It might be something from your tree that got into Linus' _after_ mm8?
WimMark I report for 2.5.70
Runs: 1005.78 958.80 947.23
WimMark I report for 2.5.70-mm1
Runs (deadline): 717.27 1064.57 1089.13
Runs (anticipatory): 1342.93 1121.47 1330.42
...
WimMark I run results are archived at
http://oss.oracle.com/~jlbec/wimmark/wimmark_I.html
This is nuts. WimMark keeps on showing 2:1 swings in throughput when no
other test shows any variation at all. I simply do not know what to make
of it.
Your results would appear to indicate that the regression between
2.5.69-mm5 and 2.5.69-mm8 was actually due to something in Linus's tree,
and it is now in 2.5.70.
I have an interdiff here between the linus.patch from mm5 and mm8 and it
contains nothing very interesting.