Re: kernel building regression on 32-rc5 kernel

From: Alex Shi
Date: Tue Nov 03 2009 - 20:20:24 EST


Yes, the performance recovered with this patch on 32-rc6 kernel.


On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 02:32 +0800, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 03 2009, Shi, Alex wrote:
> > I found the kernel building will have about 20%~ 30% regressions on
> > our NHM machines. My kernel build do the following things 15 times:
> >
> > make mrproper; echo \"3\">/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches; make defconfig;
> > make -j${2timescpunumbers}
> >
> >
> >
> > Bisect found it is due to the commitment:
> >
> > commit a6151c3a5c8e1ff5a28450bc8d6a99a2a0add0a7
>
> I looked over that commit and found one typo, can you check with this
> patch applied?
>
> diff --git a/block/cfq-iosched.c b/block/cfq-iosched.c
> index 069a610..5802e32 100644
> --- a/block/cfq-iosched.c
> +++ b/block/cfq-iosched.c
> @@ -2051,7 +2051,7 @@ cfq_should_preempt(struct cfq_data *cfqd, struct cfq_queue *new_cfqq,
> * it's a metadata request and the current queue is doing regular IO.
> */
> if (rq_is_meta(rq) && !cfqq->meta_pending)
> - return false;
> + return true;
>
> /*
> * Allow an RT request to pre-empt an ongoing non-RT cfqq timeslice.
>

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