RE: Performance of low-cpu utilisation benchmark regressed severely since 4.6

From: Doug Smythies
Date: Tue Apr 11 2017 - 11:41:18 EST


On 2017.04.11 03:03 Mel Gorman wrote:
>On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 10:51:38PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 10:41 AM, Mel Gorman wrote:
>>>
>>> It's far more obvious when looking at the git test suite and the length
>>> of time it takes to run. This is a shellscript and git intensive workload
>>> whose CPU utilisatiion is very low but is less sensitive to multiple
>>> factors than netperf and sockperf.
>>

I would like to repeat your tests on my test computer (i7-2600K).
I am not familiar with, and have not been able to find,
"the git test suite" shellscript. Could you point me to it?

... Doug