From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 17:40:26 -0800 (PST) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [REGRESSION] 2.6.19/2.6.20-rc3 buffered write slowdown In-Reply-To: <20070111010605.GU33919298@melbourne.sgi.com> Message-ID: References: <20070110223731.GC44411608@melbourne.sgi.com> <20070110230855.GF44411608@melbourne.sgi.com> <45A57333.6060904@yahoo.com.au> <20070111003158.GT33919298@melbourne.sgi.com> <20070111010605.GU33919298@melbourne.sgi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: David Chinner Cc: Nick Piggin , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Thu, 11 Jan 2007, David Chinner wrote: > On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 04:43:36PM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > You are comparing a debian 2.6.18 standard kernel with your tuned version > > of 2.6.20-rc3. There may be a lot of differences. Could you get us the > > config? Or use the same config file and build 2.6.20/18 the same way. > > I took the /proc/config.gz from the debian 2.6.18-1 kernel as the > base config for the 2.6.20-rc3 kernel and did a make oldconfig on > it to make sure it was valid for the newer kernel but pretty much > the same. I think that's the right process, so I don't think > different build configs are the problem here. Debian may have added extra patches that are not upstream. I see f.e. some of my post 2.6.18 patches in there. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org