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From: tip-bot for Bruce Merry <tipbot@zytor.com>
To: linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org
Cc: hpa@zytor.com, acme@redhat.com, paulus@samba.org,
	bmerry@ska.ac.za, peterz@infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de,
	mingo@kernel.org
Subject: [tip:perf/urgent] perf bench: Fix order of arguments to memcpy_alloc_mem
Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2015 08:49:26 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <tip-e17fdaeaec066c725f73cd3cda1feae52b2646f5@git.kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150115092022.GA11292@kryton>

Commit-ID:  e17fdaeaec066c725f73cd3cda1feae52b2646f5
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/e17fdaeaec066c725f73cd3cda1feae52b2646f5
Author:     Bruce Merry <bmerry@ska.ac.za>
AuthorDate: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 11:20:22 +0200
Committer:  Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
CommitDate: Sun, 22 Feb 2015 23:10:56 -0300

perf bench: Fix order of arguments to memcpy_alloc_mem

This was causing the destination instead of the source to be filled.  As
a result, the source was typically all mapped to one zero page, and
hence very cacheable.

Signed-off-by: Bruce Merry <bmerry@ska.ac.za>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150115092022.GA11292@kryton
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
---
 tools/perf/bench/mem-memcpy.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/bench/mem-memcpy.c b/tools/perf/bench/mem-memcpy.c
index 6c14afe..db1d3a2 100644
--- a/tools/perf/bench/mem-memcpy.c
+++ b/tools/perf/bench/mem-memcpy.c
@@ -289,7 +289,7 @@ static u64 do_memcpy_cycle(const struct routine *r, size_t len, bool prefault)
 	memcpy_t fn = r->fn.memcpy;
 	int i;
 
-	memcpy_alloc_mem(&src, &dst, len);
+	memcpy_alloc_mem(&dst, &src, len);
 
 	if (prefault)
 		fn(dst, src, len);
@@ -312,7 +312,7 @@ static double do_memcpy_gettimeofday(const struct routine *r, size_t len,
 	void *src = NULL, *dst = NULL;
 	int i;
 
-	memcpy_alloc_mem(&src, &dst, len);
+	memcpy_alloc_mem(&dst, &src, len);
 
 	if (prefault)
 		fn(dst, src, len);

      parent reply	other threads:[~2015-03-01 16:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-15  9:20 [PATCH v2] perf bench: fix order of arguments to memcpy_alloc_mem Bruce Merry
2015-02-19  0:31 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-03-01 16:49 ` tip-bot for Bruce Merry [this message]

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