Re: [PATCH v4 2/3] mm/free_pcppages_bulk: do not hold lock when picking pages to free

[Dave Hansen]

On 03/02/2018 01:23 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> On my Sandybridge desktop, with will-it-scale/page_fault1/single process
>> run to emulate uniprocessor system, the score is(average of 3 runs):
>>
>> base(patch 1/3):	649710 
>> this patch:		653554 +0.6%
> Does that mean we got faster or slower?

Faster.  The unit of measurement here is iterations through a loop.
More iterations are better.