Mel Gorman wrote: > > I did manage to get a couple which were slightly worse, but nothing like as > > bad as before. Here are the results: > > > > # grep -F '[k]' report | head -8 > > 45.60% qemu-kvm [kernel.kallsyms] [k] clear_page_c > > 11.26% qemu-kvm [kernel.kallsyms] [k] isolate_freepages_block > > 3.21% qemu-kvm [kernel.kallsyms] [k] _raw_spin_lock > > 2.27% ksmd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] memcmp > > 2.02% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] default_idle > > 1.58% qemu-kvm [kernel.kallsyms] [k] svm_vcpu_run > > 1.30% qemu-kvm [kernel.kallsyms] [k] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave > > 1.09% qemu-kvm [kernel.kallsyms] [k] get_page_from_freelist > > > > # grep -F '[k]' report | head -8 > > 61.29% qemu-kvm [kernel.kallsyms] [k] clear_page_c > > 4.52% qemu-kvm [kernel.kallsyms] [k] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave > > 2.64% qemu-kvm [kernel.kallsyms] [k] copy_page_c > > 1.61% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] default_idle > > 1.57% qemu-kvm [kernel.kallsyms] [k] _raw_spin_lock > > 1.18% qemu-kvm [kernel.kallsyms] [k] get_page_from_freelist > > 1.18% qemu-kvm [kernel.kallsyms] [k] isolate_freepages_block > > 1.11% qemu-kvm [kernel.kallsyms] [k] svm_vcpu_run > > Were the boot times acceptable even when these slightly worse figures > were recorded? Yes, they were 10-20% slower as you might expect from the traces, rather than a factor slower. > Thank you for the detailed reporting and the testing, it's much > appreciated. I've already rebased the patches to Andrew's tree and tested > them overnight and the figures look good on my side. I'll update the > changelog and push them shortly. Great. On my side, I'm delighted that senior kernel developers such as you, Rik and Avi took our bug report seriously and helped fix it! Thank you, Richard. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
