On Mon 01-11-21 08:44:58, Suren Baghdasaryan wrote: [...] > I'm with you on this one, that's why I wanted to measure the price we > would pay. Below are the test results: > > Test: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20170725142626.GJ26723@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ > Compiled: gcc -O2 -static test.c -o test > Test machine: 128 core / 256 thread 2x AMD EPYC 7B12 64-Core Processor > (family 17h) > > baseline (Linus master, f31531e55495ca3746fb895ffdf73586be8259fa) > p50 (median) 87412 > p95 168210 > p99 190058 > average 97843.8 > stdev 29.85% > > unconditional mmap_write_lock in exit_mmap (last column is the change > from the baseline) > p50 (median) 88312 +1.03% > p95 170797 +1.54% > p99 191813 +0.92% > average 97659.5 -0.19% > stdev 32.41% > > unconditional mmap_write_lock in exit_mmap + Matthew's patch (last > column is the change from the baseline) > p50 (median) 88807 +1.60% > p95 167783 -0.25% > p99 187853 -1.16% > average 97491.4 -0.36% > stdev 30.61% > > stdev is quite high in all cases, so the test is very noisy. > The impact seems quite low IMHO. WDYT? Results being very noisy is what I recall as well. Thanks! -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs
