Re: [perf/x86/amd] 471af006a7: will-it-scale.per_process_ops -7.6% regression

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Wed Feb 12 2020 - 07:18:39 EST


On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 07:35:14PM +0800, kernel test robot wrote:
> Greeting,
>
> FYI, we noticed a -7.6% regression of will-it-scale.per_process_ops due to commit:
>
>
> commit: 471af006a747f1c535c8a8c6c0973c320fe01b22 ("perf/x86/amd: Constrain Large Increment per Cycle events")
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git master
>
> in testcase: will-it-scale
> on test machine: 88 threads Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2699 v4 @ 2.20GHz with 128G memory

That commit only changes code relevant to AMD machines; give you have
this result on an Intel machine makes me think the bisect is flawed.