From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754680Ab0CXDGL (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Mar 2010 23:06:11 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:44732 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754419Ab0CXDGJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Mar 2010 23:06:09 -0400 Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 20:00:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Andi Kleen cc: Ingo Molnar , Anton Starikov , Greg KH , stable@kernel.org, Andrew Morton , linux-mm@kvack.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List , bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org, bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org, Peter Zijlstra Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 15618] New: 2.6.18->2.6.32->2.6.33 huge regression in performance In-Reply-To: <871vfah3db.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> Message-ID: References: <20100323102208.512c16cc.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20100323173409.GA24845@elte.hu> <9D040E9A-80F2-468F-A6CD-A4912615CD3F@gmail.com> <9FC34DA1-D6DD-41E5-8B76-0712A813C549@gmail.com> <20100323233640.GA16798@elte.hu> <871vfah3db.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 24 Mar 2010, Andi Kleen wrote: > > It would be also nice to get that change into 2.6.32 stable. That is > widely used on larger systems. Looking at the changes to the files in question, it looks like it should all apply cleanly to 2.6.32, so I don't see any reason not to backport further back. Somebody should double-check, though. Linus From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail190.messagelabs.com (mail190.messagelabs.com [216.82.249.51]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C13AC6B01B3 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 23:06:08 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 20:00:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 15618] New: 2.6.18->2.6.32->2.6.33 huge regression in performance In-Reply-To: <871vfah3db.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> Message-ID: References: <20100323102208.512c16cc.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20100323173409.GA24845@elte.hu> <9D040E9A-80F2-468F-A6CD-A4912615CD3F@gmail.com> <9FC34DA1-D6DD-41E5-8B76-0712A813C549@gmail.com> <20100323233640.GA16798@elte.hu> <871vfah3db.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Andi Kleen Cc: Ingo Molnar , Anton Starikov , Greg KH , stable@kernel.org, Andrew Morton , linux-mm@kvack.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List , bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org, bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org, Peter Zijlstra List-ID: On Wed, 24 Mar 2010, Andi Kleen wrote: > > It would be also nice to get that change into 2.6.32 stable. That is > widely used on larger systems. Looking at the changes to the files in question, it looks like it should all apply cleanly to 2.6.32, so I don't see any reason not to backport further back. Somebody should double-check, though. Linus -- 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