Re: WimMark I report for 2.5.70-mm1

Nick Piggin (piggin@cyberone.com.au)
Wed, 28 May 2003 09:59:21 +1000


Andrew Morton wrote:

>Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com> wrote:
>
>>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.
>
It might be something from your tree that got into Linus' _after_ mm8?

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