[x86, vdso] cfda7bb9ecb: +14.7% will-it-scale.per_thread_ops

From: Jet Chen
Date: Tue May 20 2014 - 02:01:25 EST


Hi Andy,

FYI, we noticed the below changes on

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git x86/vdso
commit cfda7bb9ecbf9d96264bb5bade33a842966d1062 ("x86, vdso: Move syscall and sysenter setup into kernel/cpu/common.c")

test case: nhm4/will-it-scale/sched_yield

3d7ee969bffcc98 cfda7bb9ecbf9d96264bb5bad
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5497021 ~ 0% +14.7% 6303424 ~ 0% TOTAL will-it-scale.per_thread_ops
0.54 ~ 0% +5.6% 0.57 ~ 0% TOTAL will-it-scale.scalability
6209483 ~ 0% +1.6% 6305917 ~ 0% TOTAL will-it-scale.per_process_ops
2455 ~ 5% +16.9% 2870 ~ 5% TOTAL cpuidle.C1-NHM.usage
8829 ~ 7% +15.2% 10169 ~10% TOTAL slabinfo.kmalloc-64.active_objs
24.13 ~12% +48.9% 35.93 ~14% TOTAL time.user_time
393 ~ 0% -3.0% 382 ~ 1% TOTAL time.system_time


Legend:
~XX% - stddev percent
[+-]XX% - change percent


Thanks,
Jet


echo performance > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor
echo performance > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/cpufreq/scaling_governor
echo performance > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu2/cpufreq/scaling_governor
echo performance > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu3/cpufreq/scaling_governor
echo performance > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu4/cpufreq/scaling_governor
echo performance > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu5/cpufreq/scaling_governor
echo performance > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu6/cpufreq/scaling_governor
echo performance > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu7/cpufreq/scaling_governor
./runtest.py sched_yield 32 1 4 6 8