volanoMark has 45% regression with kernel 2.6.25-rc1 on my both 8-core stoakley and 16-core Tigerton.
I used bisect to locate below patch. commit 58e2d4ca581167c2a079f4ee02be2f0bc52e8729 Author: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri Jan 25 21:08:00 2008 +0100 sched: group scheduling, change how cpu load is calculated hackbench has about 30% regression on 16-core tigerton, but has about 10% improvement on 8-core stoakley. In addition, tbench has about 6% regression on my 8-core stoakley and 25% regression on 16-core stoakley. Some other benchmarks, like netperf/aim7 also have some regression. I will verify if they are all related to the patch. -yanmin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/