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SubjectRe: [mm] 3484b2de949: -56.2% vm-scalability.throughput, +9.3% turbostat.Pkg_W
On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 12:32:52PM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote:
> Hi Mel,
>
> We noticed the below vm-scalability performance/power regressions on
> commit 3484b2de9499df23c4604a513b36f96326ae81ad ("mm: rearrange zone
> fields into read-only, page alloc, statistics and page reclaim lines").
>
> 24b7e5819ad5cbe 3484b2de9499df23c4604a513 testbox/testcase/testparams
> --------------- ------------------------- ---------------------------
> %stddev %change %stddev
> \ | /
> 9.95 ± 2% +69.1% 16.83 ± 5% brickland3/vm-scalability/300s-lru-file-mmap-read
> 2.32 ± 6% +229.4% 7.63 ± 5% brickland3/vm-scalability/300s-lru-file-readonce
> 12.27 ± 3% +99.4% 24.46 ± 5% TOTAL vm-scalability.stddev
>
> 24b7e5819ad5cbe 3484b2de9499df23c4604a513
> --------------- -------------------------
> 13882598 ± 0% -35.8% 8915310 ± 1% brickland3/vm-scalability/300s-lru-file-mmap-read
> 36379953 ± 1% -64.0% 13093373 ± 0% brickland3/vm-scalability/300s-lru-file-readonce
> 50262551 ± 0% -56.2% 22008683 ± 0% TOTAL vm-scalability.throughput
>


What units are these? It's completely unclear what is good and bad from the
figures. 300s-lru-file-mmap-read appears multiple times in this report,
each with different numbers beside them but little clue as to what they
mean or what I'm meant to be looking for :(

This is the same patch that was reported as having a performance gain in
another set of tests from lkp so am a little confused.

More importantly, as this patch is primary abougt cache misses it should
be very unlikely that it makes a noticable difference to IO as the
relative cost of a cache miss is so low. Similarly any difference it
makes to reclaim activity is likely to be a coincidence or due to test
variance.

--
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs
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