Autonomously Finding Performance Regressions In The Linux Kernel

Posted by phoronix on Oct 22, 2009 9:17 PM EDT
Phoronix; By Michael Larabel 		Mail this story
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Last weekend a few Phoronix benchmarks were underway of the Linux 2.6.32-rc5 kernel when a very significant performance regression was spotted. This regression caused the PostgreSQL server to run at about 18% of the performance found in earlier kernel releases. Long story short, in tracking down this performance regression we have finally devised a way to autonomously locate performance regressions within the Linux kernel and potentially any Git-based project for that matter. Here are a few details.

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