On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 05:09:51PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
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>* Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> wrote:
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>> The pda rework (commit 3461b0af025251bbc6b3d56c821c6ac2de6f7209)
>> to remove static boot cpu pdas introduced a bug.  _boot_cpu_pda is the
>> actual pda used by the boot cpu and is definitely not "__read_mostly" and
>> ended up polluting the read mostly section with writes.  This bug caused
>> regression of about 8-10% on certain syscall intensive workloads.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
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>applied to tip/x86/urgent, with a Cc: stable tag. Thanks,
>

Thanks!

Stable maintainers, please consider this for 2.6.27 stable as well
(in addition to 28).  (Attaching the tip/x86/urgent commit as reference to
the patch)

Thanks,
Kiran