Re: [mm] 6471384af2: phoronix-test-suite.darktable.Masskrug.CPU-only.seconds 10.2% regression

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Thu Apr 09 2020 - 10:03:37 EST


On Thu 09-04-20 21:50:29, kernel test robot wrote:
> Greeting,
>
> FYI, we noticed a 10.2% regression of phoronix-test-suite.darktable.Masskrug.CPU-only.seconds due to commit:
>
>
> commit: 6471384af2a6530696fc0203bafe4de41a23c9ef ("mm: security: introduce init_on_alloc=1 and init_on_free=1 boot options")
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git master
[...]
> CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON=y
> CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON=y

So the feature is enabled by default and therefore this is no
regression. The feature is expected to have an overhead. It is nice to
see that quantified. These numbers roughly match those presented when
the feature was enabled.
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs