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Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 12:36:33 -0400
From: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: rework 4xx PTE access and TLB miss
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On Wed, 9 Jul 2008 10:23:08 -0400
Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:54:40 +1000
> Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> 
> > This is some preliminary work to improve TLB management on SW loaded
> > TLB powerpc platforms. This introduce support for non-atomic PTE
> > operations in pgtable-ppc32.h and removes write back to the PTE from
> > the TLB miss handlers. In addition, the DSI interrupt code no longer
> > tries to fixup write permission, this is left to generic code, and
> > _PAGE_HWWRITE is gone.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
> 
> Boots for me now.  So far it's surviving a dbench run, and I'll try
> hackbench/kernbench shortly.

For those interested, here are the results of my stupidly simple
hackbench runs:

Setup: 

- AMCC PowerPC Sequoia 440EPx board, 128MiB of DRAM, 533 MHz CPU
clock
- NFS rootfs over 100MBit ethernet
- soft-float userspace

Times were gathered by booting to a prompt, running five 'hackbench 50'
tests, and averaging the results.

sequoia_defconfig:       Avg time - 48.1118 seconds
sequoia_defconfig+patch: Avg time - 47.8996 seconds

I consider that difference to be in the noise range, but the important
thing is that it doesn't show a regression in performance.

Feel free to flame away at my lame testing.  I didn't have the setup or
time to do much else at the moment.

josh