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SubjectRe: [x86, vdso] cfda7bb9ecb: +14.7% will-it-scale.per_thread_ops
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 10:59 PM, Jet Chen <jet.chen@intel.com> wrote:
> Hi Andy,
>
> FYI, we noticed the below changes on
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git x86/vdso
> commit cfda7bb9ecbf9d96264bb5bade33a842966d1062 ("x86, vdso: Move syscall
> and sysenter setup into kernel/cpu/common.c")

This is really strange. That change shouldn't have any effect except
that some kernels might boot a cycle or two faster.

>
> test case: nhm4/will-it-scale/sched_yield
>
> 3d7ee969bffcc98 cfda7bb9ecbf9d96264bb5bad
> --------------- -------------------------
> 5497021 ~ 0% +14.7% 6303424 ~ 0% TOTAL
> will-it-scale.per_thread_ops
> 0.54 ~ 0% +5.6% 0.57 ~ 0% TOTAL will-it-scale.scalability
> 6209483 ~ 0% +1.6% 6305917 ~ 0% TOTAL
> will-it-scale.per_process_ops
> 2455 ~ 5% +16.9% 2870 ~ 5% TOTAL cpuidle.C1-NHM.usage
> 8829 ~ 7% +15.2% 10169 ~10% TOTAL
> slabinfo.kmalloc-64.active_objs
> 24.13 ~12% +48.9% 35.93 ~14% TOTAL time.user_time
> 393 ~ 0% -3.0% 382 ~ 1% TOTAL time.system_time
>

Is this a speedup or a slowdown?

--Andy


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