Re: [PATCH v3] arm64: mm: Fix NOMAP page initialization

[Robert Richter]

On 13.01.17 09:19:04, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 07:58:25PM +0100, Robert Richter wrote:
> > On 12.01.17 16:05:36, Will Deacon wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 12:53:20PM +0100, Robert Richter wrote:
> > 
> > > > Kernel compile times (3 runs each):
> > > > 
> > > > pfn_valid_within():
> > > > 
> > > > real    6m4.088s
> > > > user    372m57.607s
> > > > sys     16m55.158s
> > > > 
> > > > real    6m1.532s
> > > > user    372m48.453s
> > > > sys     16m50.370s
> > > > 
> > > > real    6m4.061s
> > > > user    373m18.753s
> > > > sys     16m57.027s
> > > 
> > > Did you reboot the machine between each build here, or only when changing
> > > kernel? If the latter, do you see variations in kernel build time by simply
> > > rebooting the same Image?
> > 
> > I built it in a loop on the shell, so no reboots between builds. Note
> > that I was building the kernel in /dev/shm to not access harddisks. I
> > think build times should be comparable then since there is no fs
> > caching.
> 
> I guess I'm really asking what the standard deviation is if you *do* reboot
> between builds, using the same kernel. It's hard to tell whether the numbers
> are due to the patches, or just because of noise incurred by the way things
> happen to initialise.

Ok, I am going to test this.

-Robert