Re: RCU latency regression in 2.6.16-rc1



On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 09:01 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Lee Revell <rlrevell@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 08:56 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > * Lee Revell <rlrevell@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > > I ported the latency tracer to 2.6.16 and got this 13ms latency within
> > > > a few hours. This is a regression from 2.6.15.
> > > >
> > > > It appears that RCU can invoke ipv4_dst_destroy thousands of times in
> > > > a single batch.
> > >
> > > could you try the PREEMPT_RCU patch below?
> >
> > Sure. If it works do you see this making it in 2.6.16? Otherwise we
> > still would have a regression...
>
> nope, that likely wont make v2.6.16, which is frozen already.
>

Well, the last latency regression I found, I was told "I wish you'd
caught this at 2.6.15-rc1, something could have been done". Now I've
found another one at the -rc1 stage, and there's still nothing that can
be done?

Lee

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