Re: [PATCH 0/6] sched/fair: Compute capacity invariant load/utilization tracking

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 12:29:51PM +0100, Morten Rasmussen wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 10:46:05PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 05:23:08PM +0100, Morten Rasmussen wrote:
> > > Target: ARM TC2 A7-only (x3)
> > > Test: hackbench -g 25 --threads -l 10000
> > > 
> > > Before	After
> > > 315.545	313.408	-0.68%
> > > 
> > > Target: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU M 520 @ 2.40GHz
> > > Test: hackbench -g 25 --threads -l 1000 (avg of 10)
> > > 
> > > Before	After
> > > 6.4643	6.395	-1.07%
> > 
> > Yeah, so that is a problem.
> 
> Maybe I'm totally wrong, but doesn't hackbench report execution so less
> is better? In that case -1.07% means we are doing better with the
> patches applied (after time < before time). In any case, I should have
> indicated whether the change is good or bad for performance.
> 
> > I'm taking it some of the new scaling stuff doesn't compile away, can we
> > look at fixing that?
> 
> I will double-check that the stuff goes away as expected. I'm pretty
> sure it does on ARM.

Ah, uhm.. you have a point there ;-) I'll run the numbers when I'm back
home again.
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