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Hiro Yoshioka c22ce143d1 [PATCH] x86: cache pollution aware __copy_from_user_ll() 
Use the x86 cache-bypassing copy instructions for copy_from_user().

Some performance data are

Total of GLOBAL_POWER_EVENTS (CPU cycle samples)

2.6.12.4.orig    1921587
2.6.12.4.nt      1599424
1599424/1921587=83.23% (16.77% reduction)

BSQ_CACHE_REFERENCE (L3 cache miss)
2.6.12.4.orig      57427
2.6.12.4.nt        20858
20858/57427=36.32% (63.7% reduction)

L3 cache miss reduction of __copy_from_user_ll
samples  %
37408    65.1412  vmlinux                  __copy_from_user_ll
23        0.1103  vmlinux                  __copy_user_zeroing_intel_nocache
23/37408=0.061% (99.94% reduction)

Top 5 of 2.6.12.4.nt
Counted GLOBAL_POWER_EVENTS events (time during which processor is not stopped) with a unit mask of 0x01 (mandatory) count 100000
samples  %        app name                 symbol name
128392    8.0274  vmlinux                  __copy_user_zeroing_intel_nocache
64206     4.0143  vmlinux                  journal_add_journal_head
59746     3.7355  vmlinux                  do_get_write_access
47674     2.9807  vmlinux                  journal_put_journal_head
46021     2.8774  vmlinux                  journal_dirty_metadata
pattern9-0-cpu4-0-09011728/summary.out

Counted BSQ_CACHE_REFERENCE events (cache references seen by the bus unit) with a unit mask of 0x3f (multiple flags) count 3000
samples  %        app name                 symbol name
69755     4.2861  vmlinux                  __copy_user_zeroing_intel_nocache
55685     3.4215  vmlinux                  journal_add_journal_head
52371     3.2179  vmlinux                  __find_get_block
45504     2.7960  vmlinux                  journal_put_journal_head
36005     2.2123  vmlinux                  journal_stop
pattern9-0-cpu4-0-09011744/summary.out

Counted BSQ_CACHE_REFERENCE events (cache references seen by the bus unit) with a unit mask of 0x200 (read 3rd level cache miss) count 3000
samples  %        app name                 symbol name
1147      5.4994  vmlinux                  journal_add_journal_head
881       4.2240  vmlinux                  journal_dirty_data
872       4.1809  vmlinux                  blk_rq_map_sg
734       3.5192  vmlinux                  journal_commit_transaction
617       2.9582  vmlinux                  radix_tree_delete
pattern9-0-cpu4-0-09011731/summary.out

iozone results are

original 2.6.12.4 CPU time = 207.768 sec
cache aware       CPU time = 184.783 sec
(three times run)
184.783/207.768=88.94% (11.06% reduction)

original:
pattern9-0-cpu4-0-08191720/iozone.out:  CPU Utilization: Wall time   45.997    CPU time   64.527    CPU utilization 140.28 %
pattern9-0-cpu4-0-08191741/iozone.out:  CPU Utilization: Wall time   46.878    CPU time   71.933    CPU utilization 153.45 %
pattern9-0-cpu4-0-08191743/iozone.out:  CPU Utilization: Wall time   45.152    CPU time   71.308    CPU utilization 157.93 %

cache awre:
pattern9-0-cpu4-0-09011728/iozone.out:  CPU Utilization: Wall time   44.842    CPU time   62.465    CPU utilization 139.30 %
pattern9-0-cpu4-0-09011731/iozone.out:  CPU Utilization: Wall time   44.718    CPU time   59.273    CPU utilization 132.55 %
pattern9-0-cpu4-0-09011744/iozone.out:  CPU Utilization: Wall time   44.367    CPU time   63.045    CPU utilization 142.10 %

Signed-off-by: Hiro Yoshioka <hyoshiok@miraclelinux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23 07:42:56 -07:00
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alpha [PATCH] VFS: Permit filesystem to perform statfs with a known root dentry 2006-06-23 07:42:45 -07:00
arm [ARM] 3537/1: Rework DMA-bounce locking for finer granularity 2006-06-22 22:27:14 +01:00
arm26 [PATCH] No arch-specific strpbrk implementations 2006-04-11 06:18:40 -07:00
cris [PATCH] No arch-specific strpbrk implementations 2006-04-11 06:18:40 -07:00
frv [PATCH] frv: trivial cleanups in frv_ksyms.c 2006-06-23 07:42:55 -07:00
h8300 [PATCH] No arch-specific strpbrk implementations 2006-04-11 06:18:40 -07:00
i386 [PATCH] x86: cache pollution aware __copy_from_user_ll() 2006-06-23 07:42:56 -07:00
ia64 [PATCH] page migration: sys_move_pages(): support moving of individual pages 2006-06-23 07:42:53 -07:00
m32r [PATCH] m32r: update switch_to macro for tuning 2006-04-19 09:13:51 -07:00
m68k [PATCH] No arch-specific strpbrk implementations 2006-04-11 06:18:40 -07:00
m68knommu [PATCH] No arch-specific strpbrk implementations 2006-04-11 06:18:40 -07:00
mips [PATCH] mips: fix number of mremap arguments 2006-06-23 07:42:56 -07:00
parisc [PATCH] VFS: Permit filesystem to perform statfs with a known root dentry 2006-06-23 07:42:45 -07:00
powerpc [PATCH] VFS: Permit filesystem to override root dentry on mount 2006-06-23 07:42:45 -07:00
ppc Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc 2006-06-22 22:11:30 -07:00
s390 [PATCH] s390: fix typo in stop_hz_timer. 2006-05-25 12:09:55 -07:00
sh [PATCH] No arch-specific strpbrk implementations 2006-04-11 06:18:40 -07:00
sh64 [PATCH] No arch-specific strpbrk implementations 2006-04-11 06:18:40 -07:00
sparc [PATCH] sparc build breakage 2006-06-22 15:05:55 -07:00
sparc64 [PATCH] VFS: Permit filesystem to perform statfs with a known root dentry 2006-06-23 07:42:45 -07:00
um Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc 2006-06-22 22:11:30 -07:00
v850 [PATCH] No arch-specific strpbrk implementations 2006-04-11 06:18:40 -07:00
x86_64 [PATCH] sys_move_pages: 32bit support (i386, x86_64) 2006-06-23 07:42:53 -07:00
xtensa [PATCH] zlib_inflate: Upgrade library code to a recent version 2006-06-22 15:05:58 -07:00