Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 25 Oct 2016 12:57:00 +0200 (CEST) | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Subject | Re: [lkp] [x86/platform/UV] 71854cb812: will-it-scale.per_thread_ops -2.3% regression |
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On Tue, 25 Oct 2016, kernel test robot wrote: > FYI, we noticed a -2.3% regression of will-it-scale.per_thread_ops due to commit: > > commit 71854cb812ec23bfe5f63d52217e6b9e6cb901f5 ("x86/platform/UV: Fix support for EFI_OLD_MEMMAP after BIOS callback updates") > https://github.com/0day-ci/linux Alex-Thorlton/x86-platform-UV-Fix-support-for-EFI_OLD_MEMMAP-after-BIOS-callback-updates/20161020-095215 > > in testcase: will-it-scale > on test machine: 12 threads Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU X 980 @ 3.33GHz with 6G memory
This is completely bogus. That patch does not even affect anything outside of the SGI UV platform. And on your i7 system uv_bios_call() is definitely not invoked.
I appreciate your effort, but posting such obviously bogus results does not make people more confident in your testing efforts.
Thanks,
tglx
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