On 8/15/23, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Aug 2023 at 07:12, kernel test robot
> wrote:
>>
>> kernel test robot noticed a 6.3% improvement of stress-ng.zero.ops_per_sec
>> on:
>
> WTF? That's ridiculous. Why would that even test new_inode() at all?
> And why would it make any difference anyw
On Tue, 15 Aug 2023 at 07:12, kernel test robot wrote:
>
> kernel test robot noticed a 6.3% improvement of stress-ng.zero.ops_per_sec on:
WTF? That's ridiculous. Why would that even test new_inode() at all?
And why would it make any difference anyway to prefetch a new inode?
The 'zero' test claim
Hello,
kernel test robot noticed a 6.3% improvement of stress-ng.zero.ops_per_sec on:
commit: c8afaa1b0f8bc93d013ab2ea6b9649958af3f1d3 ("locking: remove
spin_lock_prefetch")
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git master
testcase: stress-ng
test machine: 64 threads 2
