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From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
To: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [REGRESSION] 2.6.19/2.6.20-rc3 buffered write slowdown
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 17:40:26 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0701101731590.24010@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070111010605.GU33919298@melbourne.sgi.com>

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.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-01-11  1:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-10 22:37 David Chinner
2007-01-10 23:04 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-10 23:08   ` David Chinner
2007-01-10 23:12     ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-10 23:18       ` David Chinner
2007-01-10 23:13     ` Nick Piggin
2007-01-11  0:31       ` David Chinner
2007-01-11  0:43         ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-11  1:06           ` David Chinner
2007-01-11  1:40             ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
2007-01-11  2:57               ` David Chinner
2007-01-11  1:08         ` Nick Piggin
2007-01-11  1:24           ` David Chinner
2007-01-11  9:27             ` Nick Piggin
2007-01-11 17:51               ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-12  0:06                 ` Nick Piggin
2007-01-12  3:04                   ` Christoph Lameter
     [not found]           ` <20070111063555.GB33919298@melbourne.sgi.com>
2007-01-11  9:23             ` Nick Piggin
2007-01-11  1:11     ` David Chinner

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