Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 05 Jul 2010 11:38:14 +0000 | From | Ali Gholami Rudi <> | Subject | Re: [regression] commit 6a4f3b52 causes invalid memtype |
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Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote: > > > >> commit 2463eb8b3093995e09a0d41b3d78ee0cf5fb4249 > > > >> Author: Peter Zijlstra<peterz@infradead.org> > > > >> Date: Sat May 29 15:31:43 2010 +0200 > > > >> > > > >> rbtree: Undo augmented trees performance damage > > > > > > > > Where can I get it? I couldn't find it either in > > > > Linus' or x86 repo tip. > > > http://git.kernel.org/tip/2463eb8b3093995e09a0d41b3d78ee0cf5fb4249 > > > > It does fix it. > > Hm, interesting. That's a pure performance fix - so why does it fix a > regression? > > Does Peter's augmented rbtrees improvements fix a bug too, as a side-effect? > If yes then we need to accelerate that commit - right now it's aimed for > v2.6.36.
Since the bug appears after commit 6a4f3b52, it seems to be related to the value of memtype->subtree_max_end. Peter's patch seems to change the way memtype->subtree_max_end is updated, which seems to fix the problem too.
Thanks, Ali
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