Let's ignore this. I don't see meaningful perf/power changes. On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 12:55:55PM +0800, Jet Chen wrote: > TO: Rabin Vincent > CC: Russell King > CC: LKML > CC: lkp(a)01.org > > FYI, we noticed the below changes on > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git master > commit f9ff907b0af561dcde4683f7c9f71dc0f41d3be3 ("ARM: 8048/1: fix v7-M setup stack location") > > test case: lkp-st02/dd-write/11HDD-RAID5-cfq-ext4-1dd > > v3.15-rc6 f9ff907b0af561dcde4683f7c > --------------- ------------------------- > 273 ~ 3% -100.0% 0 ~ 0% TOTAL slabinfo.cfq_queue.num_objs > 65541468 ~ 1% -100.0% 0 ~ 0% TOTAL ftrace.balance_dirty_pages.md0.time > 273 ~ 3% -100.0% 0 ~ 0% TOTAL slabinfo.cfq_queue.active_objs > 969 ~ 8% -100.0% 0 ~ 0% TOTAL slabinfo.ip6_dst_cache.num_objs > 948 ~ 8% -100.0% 0 ~ 0% TOTAL slabinfo.ip6_dst_cache.active_objs > 12399 ~ 1% -100.0% 0 ~ 0% TOTAL ftrace.bdi_dirty_ratelimit.md0.balanced_dirty_ratelimit > 14234 ~ 2% -100.0% 0 ~ 0% TOTAL ftrace.bdi_dirty_ratelimit.md0.task_ratelimit > 10649 ~ 1% -100.0% 0 ~ 0% TOTAL ftrace.bdi_dirty_ratelimit.md0.dirty_ratelimit > 17409 ~ 2% -100.0% 0 ~ 0% TOTAL ftrace.bdi_dirty_ratelimit.md0.dirty_rate > 13787 ~ 1% -100.0% 0 ~ 0% TOTAL ftrace.bdi_dirty_ratelimit.md0.awrite_bw > 14464 ~ 1% -100.0% 0 ~ 0% TOTAL ftrace.bdi_dirty_ratelimit.md0.write_bw > 65322936 ~ 1% -100.0% 0 ~ 0% TOTAL ftrace.bdi_dirty_ratelimit.md0.time > 31 ~ 3% -100.0% 0 ~ 0% TOTAL ftrace.balance_dirty_pages.md0.dirtied_pause > 31 ~ 3% -100.0% 0 ~ 0% TOTAL ftrace.balance_dirty_pages.md0.dirtied > 14350 ~ 1% -100.0% 0 ~ 0% TOTAL ftrace.balance_dirty_pages.md0.task_ratelimit > 10633 ~ 1% -100.0% 0 ~ 0% TOTAL ftrace.balance_dirty_pages.md0.dirty_ratelimit > 13720 ~ 1% -100.0% 0 ~ 0% TOTAL ftrace.balance_dirty_pages.md0.bdi_dirty > 15220 ~ 1% -100.0% 0 ~ 0% TOTAL ftrace.balance_dirty_pages.md0.bdi_setpoint > 13720 ~ 1% -100.0% 0 ~ 0% TOTAL ftrace.balance_dirty_pages.md0.dirty > 15251 ~ 1% -100.0% 0 ~ 0% TOTAL ftrace.balance_dirty_pages.md0.setpoint > 17638 ~ 1% -100.0% 0 ~ 0% TOTAL ftrace.balance_dirty_pages.md0.limit > 36455 ~ 0% +221.6% 117256 ~ 0% TOTAL proc-vmstat.unevictable_pgs_culled > 986338 ~ 0% -55.5% 438629 ~ 0% TOTAL meminfo.Unevictable > 246584 ~ 0% -55.5% 109657 ~ 0% TOTAL proc-vmstat.nr_unevictable > 84787 ~20% -47.1% 44851 ~10% TOTAL meminfo.DirectMap4k > 11266582 ~ 1% -38.7% 6903348 ~ 0% TOTAL ftrace.writeback_single_inode.md0.index > 10996 ~ 9% -25.9% 8143 ~14% TOTAL meminfo.AnonHugePages > 1127 ~ 2% +29.8% 1462 ~ 1% TOTAL slabinfo.ftrace_event_file.num_objs > 1127 ~ 2% +29.8% 1462 ~ 1% TOTAL slabinfo.ftrace_event_file.active_objs > 1.47 ~12% -20.7% 1.17 ~ 7% TOTAL perf-profile.cpu-cycles.do_get_write_access.jbd2_journal_get_write_access.__ext4_journal_get_write_access.ext4_reserve_inode_write.ext4_mark_inode_dirty > 15826442 ~ 0% -15.5% 13381229 ~ 0% TOTAL ftrace.global_dirty_state.written > 15944180 ~ 0% -15.3% 13502162 ~ 0% TOTAL ftrace.global_dirty_state.dirtied > 2906 ~ 1% +14.0% 3314 ~ 1% TOTAL slabinfo.shared_policy_node.active_objs > 2906 ~ 1% +14.0% 3314 ~ 1% TOTAL slabinfo.shared_policy_node.num_objs > 348891 ~ 0% +14.4% 399046 ~ 0% TOTAL ftrace.global_dirty_state.limit > 394528 ~ 0% +11.8% 441163 ~ 0% TOTAL meminfo.MemFree > 98671 ~ 0% +11.8% 110310 ~ 0% TOTAL proc-vmstat.nr_free_pages > 400850 ~ 0% +11.0% 444838 ~ 0% TOTAL vmstat.memory.free > 108208 ~ 0% +11.0% 120084 ~ 0% TOTAL proc-vmstat.nr_dirty > 432868 ~ 0% +11.0% 480357 ~ 0% TOTAL meminfo.Dirty > 79363 ~ 1% -8.9% 72291 ~ 0% TOTAL proc-vmstat.workingset_nodereclaim > 65550 ~ 2% -9.1% 59612 ~ 1% TOTAL softirqs.SCHED > 12.06 ~ 5% +530.1% 75.99 ~ 8% TOTAL iostat.sdd.rrqm/s > 50.78 ~ 5% +530.2% 320.04 ~ 8% TOTAL iostat.sdd.rkB/s > 12.29 ~ 5% +520.0% 76.21 ~ 7% TOTAL iostat.sde.rrqm/s > 51.66 ~ 5% +520.9% 320.74 ~ 7% TOTAL iostat.sde.rkB/s > 49.28 ~ 6% +542.9% 316.82 ~ 7% TOTAL iostat.sdc.rkB/s > 53.30 ~ 6% +498.9% 319.26 ~ 7% TOTAL iostat.sdf.rkB/s > 12.62 ~ 5% +496.4% 75.27 ~ 6% TOTAL iostat.sdg.rrqm/s > 53.21 ~ 5% +496.2% 317.20 ~ 6% TOTAL iostat.sdg.rkB/s > 12.37 ~ 4% +509.6% 75.41 ~ 7% TOTAL iostat.sdh.rrqm/s > 51.89 ~ 4% +511.8% 317.47 ~ 7% TOTAL iostat.sdh.rkB/s > 12.60 ~ 5% +500.9% 75.73 ~ 8% TOTAL iostat.sdi.rrqm/s > 52.95 ~ 5% +502.2% 318.87 ~ 8% TOTAL iostat.sdi.rkB/s > 12.88 ~ 5% +491.9% 76.26 ~ 8% TOTAL iostat.sdj.rrqm/s > 54.51 ~ 5% +490.0% 321.59 ~ 8% TOTAL iostat.sdj.rkB/s > 12.69 ~ 6% +501.6% 76.35 ~ 8% TOTAL iostat.sdk.rrqm/s > 53.90 ~ 6% +497.5% 322.02 ~ 8% TOTAL iostat.sdk.rkB/s > 12.69 ~ 5% +501.4% 76.33 ~ 8% TOTAL iostat.sdl.rrqm/s > 53.93 ~ 5% +497.4% 322.15 ~ 8% TOTAL iostat.sdl.rkB/s > 50.24 ~ 4% +536.4% 319.69 ~ 8% TOTAL iostat.sdb.rkB/s > 11.94 ~ 4% +535.0% 75.84 ~ 8% TOTAL iostat.sdb.rrqm/s > 11.70 ~ 6% +542.7% 75.21 ~ 7% TOTAL iostat.sdc.rrqm/s > 12.68 ~ 7% +498.0% 75.82 ~ 7% TOTAL iostat.sdf.rrqm/s > 332 ~ 0% +41.9% 471 ~ 0% TOTAL iostat.md0.avgrq-sz > 3616709 ~ 1% -28.9% 2573038 ~ 1% TOTAL perf-stat.context-switches > 51043 ~ 1% +10.4% 56342 ~ 3% TOTAL perf-stat.cpu-migrations > 6.45e+11 ~ 0% -6.7% 6.021e+11 ~ 0% TOTAL perf-stat.dTLB-loads > 758 ~ 0% -5.9% 713 ~ 0% TOTAL iostat.md0.w/s > > Legend: > ~XX% - stddev percent > [+-]XX% - change percent > > > > > Disclaimer: > Results have been estimated based on internal Intel analysis and are provided > for informational purposes only. Any difference in system hardware or software > design or configuration may affect actual performance. > > Thanks, > Jet > > mdadm -q --create /dev/md0 --chunk=256 --level=raid5 --raid-devices=11 --force --assume-clean /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdd1 /dev/sde1 /dev/sdf1 /dev/sdg1 /dev/sdh1 /dev/sdi1 /dev/sdj1 /dev/sdk1 /dev/sdl1 > echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/writeback/balance_dirty_pages/enable > echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/writeback/bdi_dirty_ratelimit/enable > echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/writeback/global_dirty_state/enable > echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/writeback/writeback_single_inode/enable > mkfs -t ext4 -q /dev/md0 > mount -t ext4 /dev/md0 /fs/md0 > dd if=/dev/zero of=/fs/md0/zero-1 status=none & > sleep 600 > killall -9 dd >