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From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: Laurentiu Tudor <Laurentiu.Tudor@freescale.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Patch not showing up in patchwork (was Re: [PATCH] powerpc/booke64: wrap tlb lock and search in htw miss with FTR_SMT)
Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 17:39:34 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1401489574.6603.225.camel@snotra.buserror.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1401461955-18007-1-git-send-email-Laurentiu.Tudor@freescale.com>

On Fri, 2014-05-30 at 17:59 +0300, Laurentiu Tudor wrote:
> Virtualized environments expose a e6500 dual-threaded core
> as two single-threaded e6500 cores. Take advantage of this
> and get rid of the tlb lock and the trap-causing tlbsx in
> the htw miss handler by guarding with CPU_FTR_SMT, as it's
> already being done in the bolted tlb1 miss handler.
> 
> As seen in the results below, measurements done with lmbench
> random memory access latency test running under Freescale's
> Embedded Hypervisor, there is a ~34% improvement.
> 
> Memory latencies in nanoseconds - smaller is better
>     (WARNING - may not be correct, check graphs)
> ----------------------------------------------------
> Host       Mhz   L1 $   L2 $    Main mem    Rand mem
> ---------  ---   ----   ----    --------    --------
> smt       1665 1.8020   13.2    83.0         1149.7
> nosmt     1665 1.8020   13.2    83.0          758.1
> 
> Signed-off-by: Laurentiu Tudor <Laurentiu.Tudor@freescale.com>
> Cc: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/mm/tlb_low_64e.S | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

Any idea why this patch isn't showing up on the mailing list?  I see my
reply in the archives, but not the original patch.

-Scott

      parent reply	other threads:[~2014-05-30 22:39 UTC|newest]

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     [not found] <1401461955-18007-1-git-send-email-Laurentiu.Tudor@freescale.com>
2014-05-30 20:56 ` [PATCH] powerpc/booke64: wrap tlb lock and search in htw miss with FTR_SMT Scott Wood
2014-05-30 22:39 ` Scott Wood [this message]

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