On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 13:36 -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote:
What's the hardware configuration? Is it dual-core?
I also track tbench performance with lastest kernels on a couple of quad-core machines,
and didn't find such regression while the results did have fluctuation.
What's the commandline you is using to start tbench? I start tbench with CPU_NUM*2.
BTW, I enabled CONFIG_SLUB since 2.6.22.
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