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Date:   Fri, 7 Dec 2018 13:34:28 +0000
From:   Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
To:     Doug Smythies <dsmythies@telus.net>
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Subject: Re: [RFC/RFT][PATCH v6] cpuidle: New timer events oriented governor
 for tickless systems
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On Mon, Dec 03, 2018 at 08:23:56AM -0800, Doug Smythies wrote:
> In the README file, I did see that for reporting I am 
> somehow supposed to use compare-kernels.sh, but
> I couldn't figure that out.
> 

cd work/log
../../compare-kernels.sh

> By the way, I am running these tests as a regular user, but
> they seem to want to modify:
> 
> /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled
> 

Red herring in this case. Even if transparent hugepages are left as the
default, it still tries to write it stupidly. An irritating, but
harmless bug.

-- 
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs