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From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
To: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, LKP ML <lkp@01.org>
Subject: Re: [LKP] [mm] b191f9b106e: -8.8% netperf.time.minor_page_faults
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2015 08:35:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150401073557.GB3921@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1427858614.17170.102.camel@intel.com>

On Wed, Apr 01, 2015 at 11:23:34AM +0800, Huang Ying wrote:
> FYI, we noticed the below changes on
> 
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git master
> commit b191f9b106ea1a24a711dbebb2925d3313da5852 ("mm: numa: preserve PTE write permissions across a NUMA hinting fault")
> 
> 
> testbox/testcase/testparams: lkp-ne02/netperf/performance-300s-200%-TCP_SENDFILE
> 
> bea66fbd11af1ca9  b191f9b106ea1a24a711dbebb2  
> ----------------  --------------------------  
>          %stddev     %change         %stddev
>              \          |                \  
>      13115 ±  0%      -8.8%      11968 ±  0%  netperf.time.minor_page_faults
>      65.63 ±  6%     -14.6%      56.05 ±  7%  netperf.time.user_time
>      65.63 ±  6%     -14.6%      56.05 ±  7%  time.user_time

Hmmm, is this a positive report? It looks like it -- fewer faults at
least. Lower user_time is ambiguous because the elapsed time is not
included in the report and netperf has variable time depending on
whether it can get a confident result or not.

      reply	other threads:[~2015-04-01  7:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-01  3:23 [LKP] [mm] b191f9b106e: -8.8% netperf.time.minor_page_faults Huang Ying
2015-04-01  7:35 ` Mel Gorman [this message]

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