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charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: NeoMutt/20180716 X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=6000 definitions=9613 signatures=668687 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 suspectscore=0 spamscore=0 mlxlogscore=999 malwarescore=0 phishscore=0 mlxscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=8.12.0-2003020000 definitions=main-2005060177 X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=6000 definitions=9613 signatures=668687 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 adultscore=0 suspectscore=0 mlxscore=0 spamscore=0 clxscore=1015 priorityscore=1501 bulkscore=0 phishscore=0 impostorscore=0 malwarescore=0 lowpriorityscore=0 mlxlogscore=999 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=8.12.0-2003020000 definitions=main-2005060177 X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.4 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Precedence: bulk X-Loop: owner-majordomo@kvack.org List-ID: On Tue, May 05, 2020 at 07:55:43AM -0700, Alexander Duyck wrote: > One question about this data. What is the power management > configuration on the systems when you are running these tests? I'm > just curious if CPU frequency scaling, C states, and turbo are > enabled? Yes, intel_pstate is loaded in active mode without hwp and with turbo enabled (those power management docs are great by the way!) and intel_idle is in use too. > I ask because that is what I have seen usually make the > difference in these kind of workloads as the throughput starts > dropping off as you start seeing the core frequency lower and more > cores become active. If I follow, you're saying there's a chance performance would improve with the above disabled, but how often would a system be configured that way? Even if it were faster, the machine is configured how it's configured, or am I missing your point?