linux-kernel - Re: [LKP] [gpio] f69e00bd21: unixbench.score -24.2% regression

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Message-ID: <20190722012750.GB50506@shbuild999.sh.intel.com>
Date:   Mon, 22 Jul 2019 09:27:50 +0800
From:   Feng Tang <feng.tang@...el.com>
To:     Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
Cc:     "Chen, Rong A" <rong.a.chen@...el.com>,
        Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@...libre.com>,
        Shravan Kumar Ramani <sramani@...lanox.com>,
        LKP <lkp@...org>, David Woods <dwoods@...lanox.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [LKP] [gpio] f69e00bd21: unixbench.score -24.2% regression

Hi Linus,

On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 05:42:15AM +0800, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 2:15 PM kernel test robot <rong.a.chen@...el.com> wrote:
> 
> > FYI, we noticed a -24.2% regression of unixbench.score due to commit:
> > commit: f69e00bd21aa6a1961c521b6eb199137fcb8a76a ("gpio: mmio: Support two direction registers")
> > https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git master
> 
> That's pretty bogus since the test doesn't even seem to be using GPIO.
> Further AFAIK Intel chips don't even use that driver.
> 
> Can you provide some rootcausing?

We did some further check, and found this is a false alarm. That some recent 
change to LKP itself has enabled the latencytop for newer kernel(post 5.1-rc1),
and latencytop is known to bring extra system load to scheduling related
benchmarks like unixbench, which caused this -24.7 difference of unixbench
score. Sorry for the noise.

Thanks,
Feng

> If you are using GPIOs from userspace in the test somehow I am
> sure both me and Bartosz would be interested to hear how.
> 
> Yours,
> Linus Walleij
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