On Tue, 25 Oct 2016, kernel test robot wrote:
> FYI, we noticed a -2.3% regression of will-it-scale.per_thread_ops due to
> commit:
>
> commit 71854cb812ec23bfe5f63d52217e6b9e6cb901f5 ("x86/platform/UV: Fix
> support for EFI_OLD_MEMMAP after BIOS callback updates")
> https://github.com/0day-ci/linux
> Alex-Thorlton/x86-platform-UV-Fix-support-for-EFI_OLD_MEMMAP-after-BIOS-callback-updates/20161020-095215
>
> in testcase: will-it-scale
> on test machine: 12 threads Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU X 980 @ 3.33GHz with 6G
> memory
This is completely bogus. That patch does not even affect anything outside
of the SGI UV platform. And on your i7 system uv_bios_call() is definitely
not invoked.
I appreciate your effort, but posting such obviously bogus results does not
make people more confident in your testing efforts.
Thanks,
tglx
