Re: [PATCH v3 0/4] mm/folio_zero_user: add multi-page clearing

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>]

* Ankur Arora <ankur.a.arora@oracle.com> wrote:

> We also see performance improvement for cases where this optimization is
> unavailable (pg-sz=2MB on AMD, and pg-sz=2MB|1GB on Intel) because
> REP; STOS is typically microcoded which can now be amortized over
> larger regions and the hint allows the hardware prefetcher to do a
> better job.
> 
> Milan (EPYC 7J13, boost=0, preempt=full|lazy):
> 
>                  mm/folio_zero_user    x86/folio_zero_user     change
>                   (GB/s  +- stddev)      (GB/s  +- stddev)
> 
>   pg-sz=1GB       16.51  +- 0.54%        42.80  +-  3.48%    + 159.2%
>   pg-sz=2MB       11.89  +- 0.78%        16.12  +-  0.12%    +  35.5%
> 
> Icelakex (Platinum 8358, no_turbo=1, preempt=full|lazy):
> 
>                  mm/folio_zero_user    x86/folio_zero_user     change
>                   (GB/s +- stddev)      (GB/s +- stddev)
> 
>   pg-sz=1GB       8.01  +- 0.24%        11.26 +- 0.48%       + 40.57%
>   pg-sz=2MB       7.95  +- 0.30%        10.90 +- 0.26%       + 37.10%

How was this measured? Could you integrate this measurement as a new 
tools/perf/bench/ subcommand so that people can try it on different 
systems, etc.? There's already a 'perf bench mem' subcommand space 
where this feature could be added to.

Thanks,

	Ingo