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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	hpa@zytor.com, jeremy@xensource.com, chrisw@sous-sol.org,
	zach@vmware.com, rusty@rustcorp.com.au,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Subject: Re: lmbench lat_mmap slowdown with CONFIG_PARAVIRT
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:23:13 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4977A051.8050203@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090121072718.GN24891@wotan.suse.de>

Nick Piggin wrote:
> Oh, _llc_ references/misses? Ouch.
>
> You have, what 32K L1I, 32K L1D, and 4MB L2? And even this microbenchmark
> is seeing increased L2 misses by nearly 3%. Hmm, I wonder where that is
> coming from? Instruction fetches?
>   

I assume so.  There should be no extra data accesses with 
CONFIG_PARAVIRT (hm, there's probably some extra stack/spill traffic, 
but I surely hope that's not falling out of cache).

    J

  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-21 22:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-20 11:05 lmbench lat_mmap slowdown with CONFIG_PARAVIRT Nick Piggin
2009-01-20 11:26 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-20 12:34   ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-20 12:45     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-20 13:41       ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-20 14:03   ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-20 14:14     ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-20 14:17       ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-20 14:41         ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-20 15:00           ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-20 15:13     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-20 19:37     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-20 20:45     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-01-20 20:56       ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-21  7:27         ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-21 22:23           ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2009-01-22 22:28             ` Zachary Amsden
2009-01-22 22:44               ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-01-22 22:49                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-01-22 22:58                   ` Zachary Amsden
2009-01-22 23:52                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-01-23  0:08                       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-01-22 22:55                 ` Zachary Amsden
2009-01-23  0:14                   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-01-27  7:59                     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-27  8:24                       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-01-27 10:17                       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-01-20 19:05   ` Zachary Amsden
2009-01-20 19:31     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-22 22:26   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-01-22 23:04     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-22 23:30       ` Zachary Amsden

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