From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755276Ab2IYOhD (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Sep 2012 10:37:03 -0400 Received: from merlin.infradead.org ([205.233.59.134]:51115 "EHLO merlin.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754566Ab2IYOhB convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Sep 2012 10:37:01 -0400 Message-ID: <1348583800.3881.46.camel@twins> Subject: Re: 20% performance drop on PostgreSQL 9.2 from kernel 3.5.3 to 3.6-rc5 on AMD chipsets - bisected From: Peter Zijlstra To: Mel Gorman Cc: Linus Torvalds , Borislav Petkov , Nikolay Ulyanitsky , Mike Galbraith , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andreas Herrmann , Andrew Morton , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , Suresh Siddha Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 16:36:40 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20120925132312.GG11266@suse.de> References: <20120914212717.GA29307@liondog.tnic> <20120924150048.GB11266@suse.de> <1348500647.11847.69.camel@twins> <1348503163.11847.97.camel@twins> <1348505683.11847.111.camel@twins> <1348508657.11847.114.camel@twins> <20120925132312.GG11266@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Mailer: Evolution 3.2.2- Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2012-09-25 at 14:23 +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: > It crashes on boot due to the fact that you created a function-scope variable > called sd_llc in select_idle_sibling() and shadowed the actual sd_llc you > were interested in. D'0h!