On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Tim Chen [off-list ref] wrote:

For this patch, I've run it 10 times and got an average throughput of
104.9% compared with 2.6.39 vanilla baseline.  Wide variations are seen
run to run and the difference between max and min throughput is 52% of
average value.

If the variations are that drastic, it's useful to include the
standard deviation of the mean for each kernel as well. I know it's
only 10 runs, but it's often useful to know if a slow but reliable
process is being replaced by a sometimes faster but more erratic one,
for example.

Just a thought.

~r.

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