Re: [PATCH 0/8] locking/core patches

[Peter Zijlstra]

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.. :-)
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