On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > For this patch, I've run it 10 times and got an average throughput of > 104.9% compared with 2.6.39 vanilla baseline. Wide variations are seen > run to run and the difference between max and min throughput is 52% of > average value. If the variations are that drastic, it's useful to include the standard deviation of the mean for each kernel as well. I know it's only 10 runs, but it's often useful to know if a slow but reliable process is being replaced by a sometimes faster but more erratic one, for example. Just a thought. ~r. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href