Re: [PATCH 0/8] locking/core patches

[Waiman Long]

On 02/11/2014 03:57 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 09:45:02AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > heh, yes, it's stupid how long many benchmarks take.  Ditch it.  A
> > > change like this should be testable with a 30-line microbenchmark
> > > which runs in 5 seconds tops.
> > Another very nice option would be to stick the relevant workload
> > patterns into 'perf bench', calibrate it to emit similar figures (and
> > double check the speedup is similar as well) and thus make it an AIM7
> > work-alike microbenchmark.
> /me stares at Jason and Waiman.. :-)

It shouldn't be too hard to get the mutex exercising portion of AIM7 
into perf. I will discuss with Jason about this when we finish some of 
the high-priority tasks we currently have.

-Longman
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