On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 17:07 +0300, Ilpo Järvinen wrote: > On Tue, 16 Sep 2008, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > > On Mon, 2008-09-15 at 12:44 +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > > On Sun, 2008-09-14 at 21:51 +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > > > > > Since 2.6.22.19-cfs-v24.1 and 2.6.23.17-cfs-v24.1 schedulers are > > > identical, and these are essentially identical with 2.6.24.7, what I > > > read from numbers below is that cfs in 2.6.23 was somewhat less than > > > wonderful for either netperf or tbench, Something happened somewhere > > > other than the scheduler at 23->24 which cost us some performance, and > > > another something happened at 26->27. I'll likely go looking again.. > > > and likely regret it again ;-) > > > > Bisecting 26->27 yet again turned up a repeatable downturn in netperf > > throughput. There is no difference at this point with tbench. > > > > Bisect says first bad commit is 847106f, a security merge. Post > > bisection sanity checkouts say... > > > > v2.6.26-21-g2069f45 > > 16384 87380 1 1 60.00 98435.13 > > 16384 87380 1 1 60.01 99259.90 > > 16384 87380 1 1 60.01 99325.61 > > 16384 87380 1 1 60.00 99039.84 > > > > v2.6.26-343-g847106f > > 16384 87380 1 1 60.00 94764.59 > > 16384 87380 1 1 60.00 94909.89 > > 16384 87380 1 1 60.00 94858.63 > > 16384 87380 1 1 60.00 94801.12 > > > > ...every time. I knew I'd regret doing this. > > I assume that c142bda458a gave a good results as well... Yes, just tried it. > One additional sanity check could be to rebase security 6f0f0fd4963 on top > of the c142bda458a and then see if bisection among those security commits > on top yields to the the same result... Though I doubt it can change much > because there was not that much relevant non-security things in the merge > in question. I'm not a master of git-foo, so that is not an option. However, a dinky bisection c142bda4..847106f very clearly says... marge:..kernel/linux-2.6.27.git # git bisect bad 6f0f0fd496333777d53daff21a4e3b28c4d03a6d is first bad commit commit 6f0f0fd496333777d53daff21a4e3b28c4d03a6d Author: James Morris <jmorris@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Jul 10 17:02:07 2008 +0900 security: remove register_security hook The register security hook is no longer required, as the capability module is always registered. LSMs wishing to stack capability as a secondary module should do so explicitly. Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx> :040000 040000 0177ef46d305e51e27bfcc4350a40577f8ba8d3d 64b64c10a424df4539653a8ee34f1a2329300931 M include :040000 040000 e318891e514de674fd064f6bfad70d5633b1aff1 0dbb38d5aa7fc3e4b2e09dc65796ce7cd5faeb26 M security git bisect start # good: [c142bda458a9c81097238800e1bd8eeeea09913d] Merge branch 'drm-reorg' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6 git bisect good c142bda458a9c81097238800e1bd8eeeea09913d # bad: [847106ff628805e1a0aa91e7f53381f3fdfcd839] Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6 git bisect bad 847106ff628805e1a0aa91e7f53381f3fdfcd839 # good: [cea78dc4ca044e9666e8f5d797ec50ab85253e49] SELinux: fix off by 1 reference of class_to_string in context_struct_compute_av git bisect good cea78dc4ca044e9666e8f5d797ec50ab85253e49 # good: [65fc7668006b537f7ae8451990c0ed9ec882544e] security: fix return of void-valued expressions git bisect good 65fc7668006b537f7ae8451990c0ed9ec882544e # good: [b478a9f9889c81e88077d1495daadee64c0af541] security: remove unused sb_get_mnt_opts hook git bisect good b478a9f9889c81e88077d1495daadee64c0af541 # good: [93cbace7a058bce7f99319ef6ceff4b78cf45051] security: remove dummy module fix git bisect good 93cbace7a058bce7f99319ef6ceff4b78cf45051 # bad: [6f0f0fd496333777d53daff21a4e3b28c4d03a6d] security: remove register_security hook git bisect bad 6f0f0fd496333777d53daff21a4e3b28c4d03a6d -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-testers" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html