On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 01:49 +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Dec 2008, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > Bug-Entry   : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12208
> > Subject             : uml is very slow on 2.6.28 host
> > Submitter   : Miklos Szeredi <mik...@szeredi.hu>
> > Date                : 2008-12-12 9:35 (2 days old)
> > References  : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=122907463518593&w=4
> 
> I did a bisection, and this is the commit which is responsible:
> 
>   commit 464b75273f64be7c81fee975bd6ca9593df3427b
>   Author: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijls...@chello.nl>
>   Date:   Fri Oct 24 11:06:15 2008 +0200
>   
>       sched: re-instate vruntime based wakeup preemption
>   
>       The advantage is that vruntime based wakeup preemption has a better
>       conceptual model. Here wakeup_gran = 0 means: preempt when 'fair'.
>       Therefore wakeup_gran is the granularity of unfairness we allow in order
>       to make progress.
>   
>       Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijls...@chello.nl>
>       Acked-by: Mike Galbraith <efa...@gmx.de>
>       Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mi...@elte.hu>

If that commit is responsible, then it should also be very slow in pre
28 kernels, where the same exists.  Hm, there's another possibility.
Can you try echo NO_LAST_BUDDY > /sys/kernel/debug/sched_features?

        -Mike

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