http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3172Wes, I think that the Mplayer drop and APIC problem in smp kernel are separate problems. To answer your question, I agree with you, it would be better to open a new bug for the smp kernel to avoid confusion.
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Eric, I can confirm what you've written here: I tried reverting to as many kernels as I could try, and they all had the same (bad) performance. In addition, after using smp_affinity to make IRQ's route to both CPUs, mencoder performance didn't improve.
For now, I'll see if I can get back the performance I need by recompiling from source here.
However, it's still perturbing to see that by default IRQ's are not being routed to both processors when the APIC is enabled. Even if it's not the cause of this particular performance problem, it's still something that's changed for the worse.
Perhaps we should open a bug just about that issue?
Cheers
Eric
