Some results (was: Re: [RFC PATCH] x86, fpu: Use eagerfpu by default on all CPUs)

[Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>]

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On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 10:58:15AM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> -	/* Auto enable eagerfpu for xsaveopt */
> -	if (cpu_has_xsaveopt && eagerfpu != DISABLE)
> +	/* Auto enable eagerfpu for everyone */
> +	if (eagerfpu != DISABLE)
>  		eagerfpu = ENABLE;

So Mel did run some measurements with it on an old Intel and AMD box.
Attached are netperf results from both. The Intel box is a quad core
very similar to this one:

http://ark.intel.com/products/28020/Intel-Xeon-Processor-5063-4M-Cache-3_20-GHz-1066-MHz-FSB

netperf-udp-rr shows some impact of the eagerfpu patch which is outside
of the noise level. netperf-tcp-rr not so much but eager is still a bit
behind.

The AMD box is an old K8 and results there look like eager is better :-)
Not with all though - pipetest is worse.

netperf-udp-rr is better at almost every data point and tcp-rr looks a
bit useless with those high noise levels.

As a summary, the patch has some, albeit small, impact. We would need
more benchmarks. We have one speccpu run which is currently taking
forever to finish...

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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