Re: [lkp-robot] [sched/idle] bb400b924e: fio.write_clat_95%_us -8% improvement

[Huang, Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>]

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"Li, Aubrey" <aubrey.li@intel.com> writes:

> On Friday, April 07, 2017 9:34 AM, Huang, Ying wrote:
>> >
>> > This is really a confused report.
>> > What I want is the report of HEAD of the tree, not a commit id in the
>> > middle of my patchset.
>> 
>> That is not report generated by LKP.  You need to compare your HEAD and
>> BASE by yourself.  There is compare tool in 0day/lkp.
>
> Can you tell me how or point a documentation?

On inn,

$ lkp compare --help

We will have a better documentation soon.

>> 
>> >> >
>> >> >(3) I need to dig into the test machine bios to confirm if it's
>> >> >compliant to my expected criteria, how to do that?
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >> The test machine is lkp-bdw-ep2, you may ssh into it to check?
>> >>
>> >
>> > ssh is not good enough to me. I need to change the BIOS setting.
>> > So I need KVM access (screen + keyboard) and root Privilege of that
>> > machine.
>> 
>> Please don't change BIOS setting if possible, because that will make all history
>> data usable.  At least, please notify others about changes your want to make.
>> And it is better to change less times.
>> 
>
> I have to change BIOS setting.
>
> I at least want to turn on and off C1E to evaluate my patch. Also, I want to turn on
> and off P-state and turbo to see if SMT is really the matter.
>
> I can restore the BIOS setting after the job is done.

OK.

Best Regards,
Huang, Ying

> Thanks,
> -Aubrey