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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Cc: "Ma, Ling" <ling.ma@intel.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] [X86] performance improvement for memcpy_64.S by fast string.
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:39:45 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AFB3D31.6070901@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091111203425.GA25401@lenovo>

On 11/11/2009 12:34 PM, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
>                        			memcpy_orig	memcpy_new
> TPT: Len 1024, alignment  8/ 0:		490		570
> TPT: Len 2048, alignment  8/ 0:		826		329
> TPT: Len 3072, alignment  8/ 0:		441		464
> TPT: Len 4096, alignment  8/ 0:		579		596
> TPT: Len 5120, alignment  8/ 0:		723		729
> TPT: Len 6144, alignment  8/ 0:		859		861
> TPT: Len 7168, alignment  8/ 0:		996		994
> TPT: Len 8192, alignment  8/ 0:		1165		1127
> TPT: Len 9216, alignment  8/ 0:		1273		1260
> TPT: Len 10240, alignment  8/ 0:	1402		1395
> TPT: Len 11264, alignment  8/ 0:	1543		1525
> TPT: Len 12288, alignment  8/ 0:	1682		1659
> TPT: Len 13312, alignment  8/ 0:	1869		1815
> TPT: Len 14336, alignment  8/ 0:	1982		1951
> TPT: Len 15360, alignment  8/ 0:	2185		2110
> 
> I've run this test a few times and results almost the same,
> with alignment 1024, 3072, 4096, 5120, 6144, new version a bit slowly.
> 

Was the result for 2048 consistent (it seems odd in the extreme)... the
discrepancy between this result and Ling's results bothers me; perhaps
the right answer is to leave the current code for Core2 and use new code
(with a lower than 1024 threshold?) for NHM and K8?

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2009-11-11 22:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-06  9:41 [PATCH RFC] [X86] performance improvement for memcpy_64.S by fast string ling.ma
2009-11-06 16:51 ` Andi Kleen
2009-11-08 10:18   ` Ingo Molnar
2009-11-06 17:07 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-11-06 19:26   ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-11-09  7:24     ` Ma, Ling
2009-11-09  7:36       ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-11-09  8:08         ` Ingo Molnar
2009-11-11  7:05           ` Ma, Ling
2009-11-11  7:18             ` Ingo Molnar
2009-11-11  7:57               ` Ma, Ling
2009-11-11 23:21                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-11-12  2:12                   ` Ma, Ling
2009-11-11 20:34             ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2009-11-11 22:39               ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2009-11-12  4:28                 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2009-11-12  4:49                   ` Ma, Ling
2009-11-12  5:26                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-11-12  7:42                       ` Ma, Ling
2009-11-12  9:54                     ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2009-11-12 12:16           ` Pavel Machek
2009-11-13  7:33             ` Ingo Molnar
2009-11-13  8:04               ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-11-13  8:10                 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-11-09  9:26         ` Andi Kleen
2009-11-09 16:41           ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-11-09 18:54             ` Andi Kleen
2009-11-09 22:36               ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-11-12 12:16       ` Pavel Machek
2009-11-13  5:33         ` Ma, Ling
2009-11-13  6:04           ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-11-13  7:23             ` Ma, Ling
2009-11-13  7:30               ` H. Peter Anvin

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