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Message-ID: <CALvZod4jrU_GV1a6zk5z0KXC=N-rAnYziaSXjhMvNhfaU=uXdg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 4 Jan 2018 07:38:11 -0800
From:   Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>
To:     kernel test robot <xiaolong.ye@...el.com>
Cc:     Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@...hat.com>,
        Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>,
        Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Greg Thelen <gthelen@...gle.com>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Balbir Singh <bsingharora@...il.com>,
        Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>, Shaohua Li <shli@...com>,
        Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>, Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, lkp@...org
Subject: Re: [lkp-robot] [mm, mlock, vmscan] 7f2ca91b49: reaim.jobs_per_min
 -7.4% regression

Hi Xiaolong,

On Mon, Jan 1, 2018 at 7:17 PM, kernel test robot <xiaolong.ye@...el.com> wrote:
>
> Greeting,
>
> FYI, we noticed a -7.4% regression of reaim.jobs_per_min due to commit:
>
>
> commit: 7f2ca91b498654e7e3405f1f76ac5a80c76d336e ("mm, mlock, vmscan: no more skipping pagevecs")
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git master
>
> in testcase: reaim
> on test machine: 56 threads Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2695 v3 @ 2.30GHz with 256G memory
> with following parameters:
>
>         runtime: 300s
>         nr_task: 1000
>         test: mem_rtns_1
>         cpufreq_governor: performance
>
> test-description: REAIM is an updated and improved version of AIM 7 benchmark.
> test-url: https://sourceforge.net/projects/re-aim-7/
>

I am not able to reproduce this issue. However I am trying to repro on
a VM with 4 vcpus and 4 GiB memory and I don't see any difference. I
am suspecting that it may repro on a larger machine but I don't have
access to one. Can you please re-run this on your machine and run
"perf record -a -g" in parallel while the actual test is running.

thanks,
Shakeel