Re: [kernel] 247f5d7caa: will-it-scale.per_process_ops 9.6% improvement

[Will Deacon]

On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 04:55:42PM +0100, Jann Horn wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 12:56 PM kernel test robot
> <rong.a.chen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > FYI, we noticed a 9.6% improvement of will-it-scale.per_process_ops due to commit:
> >
> >
> > commit: 247f5d7caa443d0ea5f1992aeda875e679e9bd35 ("kernel-hacking: Make DEBUG_{LIST,PLIST,SG,NOTIFIERS} non-debug options")
> > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/will/linux.git debug-list
> 
> I'm guessing this might mean that the test bot had the DEBUG_LIST
> stuff enabled in its Kconfig, whereas after the rename, the default is
> used, which is off?

I thought that at first, but scrolling down in the logs of the report
I got totally confused by the softirqs and interrupts stuff.

> This seems a bit problematic if people had DEBUG_LIST enabled in their
> old kernel config and then try to reuse that config for a new kernel.
> I wonder whether it'd be acceptable to keep the options under their
> old names and let them "select" the new ones, or whether we have to
> choose between "keep the old bad name" and "discard people's old
> config flags".

I can keep DEBUG_LIST kicking around and have the options default to that.
Once I've finished updated lkdtm, I'll post this all out to the list.

Will