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From: "Lu, Aaron" <aaron.lu@intel.com>
To: "mhocko@kernel.org" <mhocko@kernel.org>,
	"Ye, Xiaolong" <xiaolong.ye@intel.com>
Cc: "tj@kernel.org" <tj@kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"lkp@01.org" <lkp@01.org>,
	"hannes@cmpxchg.org" <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Subject: Re: [LKP] [lkp-robot] [mm, memcontrol] 309fe96bfc: vm-scalability.throughput +23.0% improvement
Date: Tue, 29 May 2018 03:15:51 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <dbd727326f53648ed114e03a85085b6b4655fda2.camel@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180528120318.GB27180@dhcp22.suse.cz>

On Mon, 2018-05-28 at 14:03 +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Mon 28-05-18 19:40:19, kernel test robot wrote:
> > 
> > Greeting,
> > 
> > FYI, we noticed a +23.0% improvement of vm-scalability.throughput due to commit:
> > 
> > 
> > commit: 309fe96bfc0ae387f53612927a8f0dc3eb056efd ("mm, memcontrol: implement memory.swap.events")
> > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git master
> 
> This doesn't make any sense to me. The patch merely adds an accounting.
> It doesn't optimize anything. So I strongly suspect the result is just
> misleading or the test (environment) misconfigured. Not the first time
> I am seeing something like that I am afraid.
> 

Most likely the same situation as:
"
FYI, we noticed a -27.2% regression of will-it-scale.per_process_ops
due to commit:


commit: e27be240df53f1a20c659168e722b5d9f16cc7f4 ("mm: memcg: make sure
memory.events is uptodate when waking pollers")
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git master
"

Where the performance change is due to layout change of
'struct mem_cgroup':
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180528085201.GA2918@intel.com

  reply	other threads:[~2018-05-29  4:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-28 11:40 [lkp-robot] [mm, memcontrol] 309fe96bfc: vm-scalability.throughput +23.0% improvement kernel test robot
2018-05-28 12:03 ` Michal Hocko
2018-05-29  3:15   ` Lu, Aaron [this message]
2018-05-29  7:58     ` [LKP] " Michal Hocko
2018-05-29  8:11       ` Aaron Lu
2018-05-29  8:27         ` Michal Hocko
2018-05-29  9:00           ` Aaron Lu
2018-06-01  7:26 ` Aaron Lu
2018-06-06  8:50   ` Aaron Lu

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