Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] sched: Introduce Window Assisted Load Tracking

[Vikram Mulukutla]

On 2016-10-28 00:49, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 12:10:39AM -0700, Vikram Mulukutla wrote:
> > This RFC patch has been tested on live X86 machines with the following 
> > sanity
> > and benchmark results (thanks to Juri Lelli, Dietmar Eggeman, Patrick 
> > Bellasi
> > for initial code reviews):
> >
> > (Tested on an Intel i7 2nd generation CPU, 8GB RAM, Nvidia GTX950Ti 
> > graphics,
> > with the same frequency list as above. Running Ubuntu 16.04 on a 
> > v4.8.2
> > baseline. WALT window size was 10ms. Only deltas above 3% are 
> > considered
> > non-noise.Power measured with Intel RAPL counters)
>
> Was this comparison done using the use_walt_metric sysctl knob?

Yes, it was. You will want to see numbers against a pure 4.8.2 without 
any
of the WALT code, correct?