Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/6] Another go at speculative page faults

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 06:23:40PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > My Ivy Bridge EP (2*10*2) has a ~58% improvement in pagefault throughput:
> > 
> > PRE:
> >        149,441,555      page-faults                  ( +-  1.25% )
> >
> > POST:
> >        236,442,626      page-faults                  ( +-  0.08% )
> 
> > My Ivy Bridge EX (4*15*2) has a ~78% improvement in pagefault throughput:
> > 
> > PRE:
> >        105,789,078      page-faults                 ( +-  2.24% )
> >
> > POST:
> >        187,751,767      page-faults                 ( +-  2.24% )
> 
> I guess the 'PRE' and 'POST' numbers should be flipped around?

Nope, its the number of page-faults serviced in a fixed amount of time
(60 seconds), therefore higher is better.
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