linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/8] locking/core patches

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Tue, 11 Feb 2014 09:57:43 +0100
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jason Low <jason.low2@...com>,
	Waiman Long <waiman.long@...com>, paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, tglx@...utronix.de, riel@...hat.com,
	davidlohr@...com, hpa@...or.com, andi@...stfloor.org, aswin@...com,
	scott.norton@...com, chegu_vinod@...com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] locking/core patches

On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 09:45:02AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > heh, yes, it's stupid how long many benchmarks take.  Ditch it.  A 
> > change like this should be testable with a 30-line microbenchmark 
> > which runs in 5 seconds tops.
> 
> Another very nice option would be to stick the relevant workload 
> patterns into 'perf bench', calibrate it to emit similar figures (and 
> double check the speedup is similar as well) and thus make it an AIM7 
> work-alike microbenchmark.

/me stares at Jason and Waiman.. :-)
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/