Re: Industry db benchmark result on recent 2.6 kernels

[Dave Hansen]

On Mon, 2005-03-28 at 11:33 -0800, Chen, Kenneth W wrote:
> We will be taking db benchmark measurements more frequently from now on with
> latest kernel from kernel.org (and make these measurements on a fixed interval).
> By doing this, I hope to achieve two things: one is to track base kernel
> performance on a regular base; secondly, which is more important in my opinion,
> is to create a better communication flow to the kernel developers and to keep
> all interested party well informed on the kernel performance for this enterprise
> workload.

I'd guess that doing it on kernel.org is too late, sometimes.  How high
is the overhead of doing a test?  Would you be able to test each -mm
release?  It's somewhat easier to toss something out of -mm for
re-review than it is out of Linus's tree.

-- Dave

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