Comment 5 for bug 1713576

------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2017-09-07 17:48 EDT-------
(In reply to comment #8)
> I built a Zesty test kernel with commit 05b40e0577. The test kernel can be
> downloaded from:
>
> http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~jsalisbury/lp1713576
>
> Can you test this kernel and see if it resolves this bug?

Thanks, but I am having trouble with the perf packages.. any idea what is wrong?

# uname -a
Linux ltc-boston114 4.10.0-33-generic #37~lp1713576 SMP Wed Sep 6 15:50:28 UTC 2017 ppc64le ppc64le ppc64le GNU/Linux

# dpkg -i /home/migration_test_build/linux-tools-common_4.10.0-33.37~lp1713576_all.deb
(Reading database ... 99780 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../linux-tools-common_4.10.0-33.37~lp1713576_all.deb ...
Unpacking linux-tools-common (4.10.0-33.37~lp1713576) over (4.10.0-33.37~lp1713576) ...
Setting up linux-tools-common (4.10.0-33.37~lp1713576) ...
# dpkg -i /home/migration_test_build/linux-cloud-tools-common_4.10.0-33.37~lp1713576_all.deb
(Reading database ... 99780 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../linux-cloud-tools-common_4.10.0-33.37~lp1713576_all.deb ...
Unpacking linux-cloud-tools-common (4.10.0-33.37~lp1713576) over (4.10.0-33.37~lp1713576) ...
Setting up linux-cloud-tools-common (4.10.0-33.37~lp1713576) ...

# perf list
The program 'perf' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
apt install linux-tools-common

# apt install linux-tools-common
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
linux-tools-common is already the newest version (4.10.0-33.37~lp1713576).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

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Ebizzy does show a 42% improvement on average so that is probably enough, although I was hoping to validate the sched migration counts are lower.