On Sat, Jun 06, 2020 at 11:52:16PM +0800, kernel test robot wrote:
> Greeting,
>
> FYI, we noticed a 11827.2% improvement of stress-ng.stream.ops_per_sec due to
> commit:
>
>
> commit: ea7c5fc39ab005b501e0c7666c29db36321e4f74 ("[PATCH 1/4] kernfs: switch
> kernfs to use an rwsem")
> url:
> https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commits/Ian-Kent/kernfs-proposed-locking-and-concurrency-improvement/20200525-134849
>
Seriously? That's a huge performance increase, and one that feels
really odd. Why would a stress-ng test be touching sysfs?
thanks,
greg k-h
