Debug options update and 3.8-rc6

Josh Boyer jwboyer at redhat.com
Tue Feb 5 14:41:51 UTC 2013


On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 05:01:36PM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> 3.8.0-0.rc6.git1.1.fc19.x86_64 with slub_debug=- acts slower here than
> previous. 
> 
> gtkpref doesn't look very different, but graphics updates seem more
> "bursty" for lack of a better word. Ie, I change desktops and 'snap'
> everything updates. 
> 
> I'm not sure if I would call it unusable, but it's getting there. ;) 
> 
> So, perhaps CONFIG_DMA_API_DEBUG is causing things to be more bursty or
> not as smooth. 

rc6.git1.1 enabled ext4 debugging.  git0.1 was the DMA debug, though
it's cumulative so it's still enabled in git1.1.  Are you using ext4
for your filesystems?

josh


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