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From: Vikram Mulukutla <markivx@codeaurora.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] sched: Introduce Window Assisted Load Tracking
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On 2016-10-28 00:49, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 12:10:39AM -0700, Vikram Mulukutla wrote:
>> This RFC patch has been tested on live X86 machines with the following 
>> sanity
>> and benchmark results (thanks to Juri Lelli, Dietmar Eggeman, Patrick 
>> Bellasi
>> for initial code reviews):
>> 
>> (Tested on an Intel i7 2nd generation CPU, 8GB RAM, Nvidia GTX950Ti 
>> graphics,
>> with the same frequency list as above. Running Ubuntu 16.04 on a 
>> v4.8.2
>> baseline. WALT window size was 10ms. Only deltas above 3% are 
>> considered
>> non-noise.Power measured with Intel RAPL counters)
> 
> Was this comparison done using the use_walt_metric sysctl knob?

Yes, it was. You will want to see numbers against a pure 4.8.2 without 
any
of the WALT code, correct?