Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 09:57:43 +0100
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>, Waiman Long <waiman.long@hp.com>,
        paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
        tglx@linutronix.de, riel@redhat.com, davidlohr@hp.com, hpa@zytor.com,
        andi@firstfloor.org, aswin@hp.com, scott.norton@hp.com,
        chegu_vinod@hp.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] locking/core patches
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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.. :-)
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