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Message-ID: <1332856598.7425.25.camel@marge.simpson.net>
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:56:38 +0200
From: Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Paul Turner <pjt@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: sched: Avoid SMT siblings in select_idle_sibling() if possible
On Mon, 2012-03-26 at 20:06 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> The biggest regression came from tbench, wasn't that mostly a random
> number generator anyway?
That's dbench ;-) Tbench does wiggle around more than you'd like
though. I've never tracked, but in lots of running the thing, 2-3% you
can forget chasing, and I once bisected a 5% regression to an unrelated
change, reverted and re-applied the suspect a few times in disbelief,
and it tracked. You can't trust it _too_ much. I consider it a
reliable indicator that I'd better do more testing. If others agree,
it's a real regression, if not, it's those damn Elves 'n Gremlins ;-)
-Mike
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