Re: Help Needed: 4G/4G Kernel Testing

[Dave Jones <davej redhat com>]

On Sat, 2004-04-17 at 16:20, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 09:20:34PM -1000, Warren Togami wrote:
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=118165
> > Broadcom b44 network driver
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=117032
> > S3 sleep/resume problems
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=118205
> > Savage/IX-MV (MobileSavage) X-server
> > 
> > Please nominate bug numbers as comments within this report, and add it
> > to the Bug dependency list after they are confirmed 4G/4G problems.
> > 
> 
> Dunno about bug numbers but its also about 10% slower on my laptop
> (PII/266) than non 4G/4G. Thats a well known property so hardly needs
> a bug number.

It's somewhat strange that a few weeks ago when 4g/4g was temporarily
disabled, absolutely *no-one* said "Hey, it got 10% faster!"
Either no-one tested those kernels, or the slowdowns only affect
certain workloads. From past mails, iirc your workloads weren't anything
out of the ordinary, which makes me scratch my head a little.

	Dave