From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [Patch 0/4] Reordering of functions, try 2
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 16:36:25 +0100
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On Monday 27 February 2006 16:23, Arjan van de Ven wrote:

> 
> 2) In the "processor/processes" group, 7 tests changed behavior, and the
> average of these changes was a performance increase by 10% (!!). The
> exception was the signal handling test, which decreased by 6%. This
> actually made me feel good, since the original function list was based
> on a profile run that didn't do signals much if at all.

How often did you rerun lmbench each time? In my experience the numbers
are somewhat unstable. Still looks encouraging.

-Andi
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