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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Yury Norov <ynorov@caviumnetworks.com>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>,
	Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>,
	Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>,
	Akinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com>,
	Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched: remove sched_find_first_bit()
Date: Tue, 16 May 2017 10:30:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170516083042.ybenukaiiwevgqph@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170515154728.amzw3d67tw722wmu@yury-N73SV>


* Yury Norov <ynorov@caviumnetworks.com> wrote:

> I collected about 700 results in dmesg, and took 600 fastest.
> For the vanilla kernel, the average value is 368, and for patched
> kernel it is 388. It's 5% slower. But the standard deviation is 
> really big for both series' - 131 and 106 cycles respectively, which
> is ~ 30%. And so, my conclusion is: there's no benefit in using
> sched_find_first_bit() comparing to find_first_bit().

Erm, so you in essence claim:

	"according to measurements the new code is 5% slower, with a high, 30% 
	 stddev, hence the new code is better!"

Basic logic fail...

Thanks,

	Ingo

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-05-16  8:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-13  1:01 [PATCH] sched: remove sched_find_first_bit() Yury Norov
2017-05-14 18:09 ` Ingo Molnar
2017-05-15 15:47   ` Yury Norov
2017-05-15 15:47     ` Yury Norov
2017-05-15 16:06     ` Arnd Bergmann
2017-05-15 16:17       ` Yury Norov
2017-05-15 20:31         ` Arnd Bergmann
2017-05-15 20:31           ` Arnd Bergmann
2017-05-15 20:58           ` Yury Norov
2017-05-15 20:58             ` Yury Norov
2017-05-15 21:04             ` Arnd Bergmann
2017-05-16  8:30     ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2017-05-17 12:16       ` Yury Norov
2017-05-18  7:14         ` Ingo Molnar
2017-05-15 14:18 ` Arnd Bergmann

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