Re: Regression from 3.4.9 to 3.4.16 "stable" kernel

2012-10-30 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 12:53:06AM -0400, Mark Lord wrote: > On 12-10-29 07:03 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 07:00:54PM -0400, Mark Lord wrote: > >> There's something else very wrong when going from 3.4.9 to 3.4.16. > >> I've done it on two machines here, one the AMD-450

Re: Regression from 3.4.9 to 3.4.16 "stable" kernel

2012-10-29 Thread Mark Lord
On 12-10-29 07:03 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 07:00:54PM -0400, Mark Lord wrote: >> There's something else very wrong when going from 3.4.9 to 3.4.16. >> I've done it on two machines here, one the AMD-450 server (64-bit), >> and the other my main notebook (Core2duo 32-bi

Re: Regression from 3.4.9 to 3.4.16 "stable" kernel

2012-10-29 Thread Yinghai Lu
On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 07:00:54PM -0400, Mark Lord wrote: >> Both systems feel much more sluggish than usual with 3.4.16 running. >> Reverted them both back to earlier kernels (3.4.9, 3.4.4-PAE), >> and the usual responsive feel has ret

Re: Regression from 3.4.9 to 3.4.16 "stable" kernel

2012-10-29 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 07:00:54PM -0400, Mark Lord wrote: > There's something else very wrong when going from 3.4.9 to 3.4.16. > I've done it on two machines here, one the AMD-450 server (64-bit), > and the other my main notebook (Core2duo 32-bit-PAE). > > Both systems feel much more sluggish tha

Re: Regression from 3.4.9 to 3.4.16 "stable" kernel

2012-10-29 Thread Mark Lord
There's something else very wrong when going from 3.4.9 to 3.4.16. I've done it on two machines here, one the AMD-450 server (64-bit), and the other my main notebook (Core2duo 32-bit-PAE). Both systems feel much more sluggish than usual with 3.4.16 running. Reverted them both back to earlier kerne

Re: Regression from 3.4.9 to 3.4.16 "stable" kernel

2012-10-29 Thread Jacob Shin
On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 09:58:23AM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 09:47:22AM -0500, Jacob Shin wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 02:40:58PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > On Mon, 2012-10-29 at 10:22 -0400, Mark Lord wrote: > > > > On 12-10-29 02:46 AM, Willy Tarreau

Re: Regression from 3.4.9 to 3.4.16 "stable" kernel

2012-10-29 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 09:47:22AM -0500, Jacob Shin wrote: > On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 02:40:58PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Mon, 2012-10-29 at 10:22 -0400, Mark Lord wrote: > > > On 12-10-29 02:46 AM, Willy Tarreau wrote: > > > > On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 12:03:55AM -0400, Mark Lord wrote: >

Re: Regression from 3.4.9 to 3.4.16 "stable" kernel

2012-10-29 Thread Yinghai Lu
On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 7:40 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > However I'm not sure that this loop is correct either. Yinghai, does > your version definitely iterate in increasing pfn order? If not then > the max_pfn_mapped assignment must be conditional. yes, memblock is in order. Yinghai -- To unsu

Re: Regression from 3.4.9 to 3.4.16 "stable" kernel

2012-10-29 Thread Jacob Shin
On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 02:40:58PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Mon, 2012-10-29 at 10:22 -0400, Mark Lord wrote: > > On 12-10-29 02:46 AM, Willy Tarreau wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 12:03:55AM -0400, Mark Lord wrote: > > >> My server here runs the 3.4.xx series of "stable" kernels. > >

Re: Regression from 3.4.9 to 3.4.16 "stable" kernel

2012-10-29 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2012-10-29 at 10:22 -0400, Mark Lord wrote: > On 12-10-29 02:46 AM, Willy Tarreau wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 12:03:55AM -0400, Mark Lord wrote: > >> My server here runs the 3.4.xx series of "stable" kernels. > >> Until today, it was running 3.4.9. > >> Today I tried to upgrade it to

Re: Regression from 3.4.9 to 3.4.16 "stable" kernel

2012-10-29 Thread Mark Lord
On 12-10-29 10:22 AM, Mark Lord wrote: > On 12-10-29 02:46 AM, Willy Tarreau wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 12:03:55AM -0400, Mark Lord wrote: >>> My server here runs the 3.4.xx series of "stable" kernels. >>> Until today, it was running 3.4.9. >>> Today I tried to upgrade it to 3.4.16. >>> It h

Re: Regression from 3.4.9 to 3.4.16 "stable" kernel

2012-10-29 Thread Mark Lord
On 12-10-29 02:46 AM, Willy Tarreau wrote: > On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 12:03:55AM -0400, Mark Lord wrote: >> My server here runs the 3.4.xx series of "stable" kernels. >> Until today, it was running 3.4.9. >> Today I tried to upgrade it to 3.4.16. >> It hangs in setup.c. >> >> I've isolated the fault

Re: Regression from 3.4.9 to 3.4.16 "stable" kernel

2012-10-28 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 12:03:55AM -0400, Mark Lord wrote: > My server here runs the 3.4.xx series of "stable" kernels. > Until today, it was running 3.4.9. > Today I tried to upgrade it to 3.4.16. > It hangs in setup.c. > > I've isolated the fault down to this specific change > that was made betw