Greeting, FYI, we noticed a 1.9% improvement of fio.write_bw_MBps due to commit: commit: 753598e253c8f50eb5c71fdc9a85df4df9cffbf2 ("mm: test code to write THP to swap device as a whole") https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git master in testcase: fio-basic on test machine: 48 threads Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2697 v2 @ 2.70GHz with 64G memory with following parameters: runtime: 300s disk: 1HDD fs: xfs nr_task: 1 test_size: 128G rw: randwrite bs: 4M ioengine: sync cpufreq_governor: performance test-description: Fio is a tool that will spawn a number of threads or processes doing a particular type of I/O action as specified by the user. test-url: https://github.com/axboe/fio Details are as below: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------> To reproduce: git clone https://github.com/01org/lkp-tests.git cd lkp-tests bin/lkp install job.yaml # job file is attached in this email bin/lkp run job.yaml testcase/path_params/tbox_group/run: fio-basic/300s-1HDD-xfs-1-128G-randwrite-4M-sync-performance/ivb44 bd3c0e3c0819eb55 753598e253c8f50eb5c71fdc9a ---------------- -------------------------- %stddev change %stddev \ | \ 35.16 35.84 fio.write_iops 140 143 fio.write_bw_MBps 28386 27848 fio.write_clat_mean_us 15416 -4% 14809 fio.write_clat_stddev 40192 -4% 38528 fio.write_clat_90%_us 48640 -9% 44416 fio.write_clat_99%_us 86415360 88078336 fio.time.file_system_outputs 106174 108997 iostat.sda.wkB/s 107017 109838 vmstat.io.bo 0.73 ± 7% 15% 0.84 perf-stat.dTLB-load-miss-rate% 39.41 -5% 37.50 perf-stat.node-load-miss-rate% 42764176 -7% 39787608 perf-stat.iTLB-loads 2.343e+08 -8% 2.154e+08 perf-stat.iTLB-load-misses fio.write_clat_90__us 40500 ++------------------------------------------------------------------+ *.*.*.*.**.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.**.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.**.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.**.*.*.*.* 40000 ++ | | O | 39500 ++ | | O O O O O O O | 39000 ++ | O O O O | 38500 ++ | | O O O O O O O | 38000 ++ | | | 37500 ++ | | | 37000 ++----O-O-----------------------------------------------------------+ [*] bisect-good sample [O] bisect-bad sample Disclaimer: Results have been estimated based on internal Intel analysis and are provided for informational purposes only. Any difference in system hardware or software design or configuration may affect actual performance. Thanks, Xiaolong