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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Ling Ma <linguranus@gmail.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] [X86] performance improvement for memcpy_64.S by avoid memory miss predication.
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:33:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091020063326.GI8550@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4b097b8f0910192240r254cb792gb5c3217c5bc71c8c@mail.gmail.com>


* Ling Ma <linguranus@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Ingo
> Thanks for your suggestion. I used 'perf stat --repeat 10
> /develop/trunk/memcpy/static'  to measure before/after patch.
> 
> The test program I wrote:
>  for (i = 64; i < 4096 *4; i ++)
>       do_memcpy(src, dst, i);
> 
> when src offset is 0xbe000, dst is 0xad008, the measured result:
> 
> Before patch:
>  Performance counter stats for '/develop/trunk/memcpy/static' (10 runs):
>   <not counted>  task-clock-msecs
>   <not counted>  context-switches
>   <not counted>  CPU-migrations
>   <not counted>  page-faults
>   <not counted>  cycles
>   <not counted>  instructions
>   <not counted>  cache-references
>   <not counted>  cache-misses
>    37.408743997  seconds time elapsed   ( +-   0.222% )

hm, on what kind of CPU have you run this? Why are those events not 
counting? Is it some older, Pentium-4 alike CPU perhaps?

	Ingo

      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-10-20  6:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-19  5:08 linguranus
2009-10-19  7:17 ` Ingo Molnar
     [not found]   ` <4b097b8f0910192240r254cb792gb5c3217c5bc71c8c@mail.gmail.com>
2009-10-20  6:33     ` Ingo Molnar [this message]

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