Re: [Bug #12208] uml is very slow on 2.6.28 host

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 01:49 +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Dec 2008, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12208
> > Subject		: uml is very slow on 2.6.28 host
> > Submitter	: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date		: 2008-12-12 9:35 (2 days old)
> > References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=122907463518593&w=4
> 
> I did a bisection, and this is the commit which is responsible:
> 
>   commit 464b75273f64be7c81fee975bd6ca9593df3427b
>   Author: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
>   Date:   Fri Oct 24 11:06:15 2008 +0200
>   
>       sched: re-instate vruntime based wakeup preemption
>   
>       The advantage is that vruntime based wakeup preemption has a better
>       conceptual model. Here wakeup_gran = 0 means: preempt when 'fair'.
>       Therefore wakeup_gran is the granularity of unfairness we allow in order
>       to make progress.
>   
>       Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
>       Acked-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@xxxxxx>
>       Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>

How's 27? That code basically makes .28 do what .27 did, we tried
something else for a little while and that made stuff suck rocks.

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