Re: [RFC PATCH] x86 alternatives : fix LOCK_PREFIX race with preemptible kernel and CPU hotplug

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>]

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>>
>>> Xeon 2.0GHz
>>>
>>>
>>> Summary
>>>
>>>                   no lock prefix (s)   with lock prefix (s)    Speedup
>>> make -j1 kernel/      33.94 +/- 0.07         34.91 +/- 0.27      2.8 %
>>> hackbench 50           2.99 +/- 0.01          3.74 +/- 0.01     25.1 %
>>>   
>>
>> Yeah, that's more severe than I would have expected.  Perhaps I have 
>> AMD numbers in my head.
>>
>
> He doesn't specify what kind of Xeon it is (there are three completely 
> different CPUs under the Xeon brand name: P3 Xeon, P4 Xeon, and Core 2 
> Xeon), but I think it's a P4 Xeon.
>
> Netburst sucked in so many ways, and this is one of them.

I presume it's this one:
> Xeon cpuinfo :
>
> processor	: 0
> vendor_id	: GenuineIntel
> cpu family	: 6
> model		: 23
> model name	: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           E5405  @ 2.00GHz
> stepping	: 6
> cpu MHz		: 2000.126
> cache size	: 6144 KB
> physical id	: 0
> siblings	: 4
> core id		: 0
> cpu cores	: 4
> apicid		: 0
> initial apicid	: 0
> fpu		: yes
> fpu_exception	: yes
> cpuid level	: 10
> wp		: yes
> flags		: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good pni monitor ds_cpl vmx tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr dca sse4_1 lahf_lm
> bogomips	: 4000.25
> clflush size	: 64
> cache_alignment	: 64
> address sizes	: 38 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
> power management:

I've given up trying to remember what "E5405" might mean, but that 
feature list suggests a relatively modern microarchitecture.


    J