Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 27 Sep 2006 13:28:20 -0700 | From | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/6] Per-processor private data areas for i386 |
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Pavel Machek wrote: > So we have 4% slowdown... >
Yes, that would be the worst-case slowdown in the hot-cache case. Rearranging the layout of the GDT would remove any theoretical cold-cache slowdown (I haven't measured if there's any impact in practice).
> ...and 0.2% smaller kernel. I guess you should demonstrate speedup at > complex syscalls before wedecide it is worth it...
That would be nice, but this patch series isn't really intended to be a performance improvement. That would be nice, but the main motivation is to make inline assembler patching for the paravirt work cleaner.
Rusty and I have also been investigating how to use the %gs-based memory to implement all percpu data, rather than the few special cases this patch series currently covers, which will help further amortize the entry/exit cost.
Rusty has also done more comprehensive benchmarks with his variant of this patch series, and found no statistically interesting performance difference. Which is pretty much what I would expect, since it doesn't increase cache-misses at all.
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