Re: [LKP] [fs] b6509f6a8c: will-it-scale.per_thread_ops -12.6% regression

From: Mel Gorman
Date: Mon Oct 12 2020 - 04:18:31 EST


On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 02:20:26PM +0800, Xing Zhengjun wrote:
> Hi Mel,
>
> It is a revert commit caused the regression, Do you have a plan to fix
> it? Thanks. I re-test it in v5.9-rc8, the regression still existed.
>

The revert caused a *performance* regression but the original
performance gain caused a functional failure. The overall performance
should be unchanged. I have not revisited the topic since.

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Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs