Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCHv7 18/33] lib/vdso: Add unlikely() hint into vdso_read_begin() | From | Vincenzo Frascino <> | Date | Thu, 24 Oct 2019 10:30:20 +0100 |
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Hi Andrei,
On 10/24/19 7:13 AM, Andrei Vagin wrote: > On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 12:24:14PM +0100, Vincenzo Frascino wrote: >> On 10/11/19 2:23 AM, Dmitry Safonov wrote: >>> From: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com> >>> >>> Place the branch with no concurrent write before contended case. >>> >>> Performance numbers for Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6300U CPU @ 2.40GHz >>> (more clock_gettime() cycles - the better): >>> | before | after >>> ----------------------------------- >>> | 150252214 | 153242367 >>> | 150301112 | 153324800 >>> | 150392773 | 153125401 >>> | 150373957 | 153399355 >>> | 150303157 | 153489417 >>> | 150365237 | 153494270 >>> ----------------------------------- >>> avg | 150331408 | 153345935 >>> diff % | 2 | 0 >>> ----------------------------------- >>> stdev % | 0.3 | 0.1 >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com> >>> Co-developed-by: Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com> >>> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com> >> >> Reviewed-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com> >> Tested-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com> > > Hello Vincenzo, > > Could you test the attached patch on aarch64? On x86, it gives about 9% > performance improvement for CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME. >
I did run similar tests in past with a previous version of the unified vDSO library and what I can tell based on the results of those is that the impact of "__always_inline" alone was around 7% on arm64, in fact I had a comment stating "To improve performances, in this file, __always_inline it is used for the functions called multiple times." in my implementation [1].
[1] https://bit.ly/2W9zMxB
I spent some time yesterday trying to dig out why the approach did not make the cut but I could not infer it from the review process.
> Here is my test: > https://github.com/avagin/vdso-perf > > It is calling clock_gettime() in a loop for three seconds and then > reports a number of iterations. >
I am happy to run the test on arm64 and provide some results.
> Thanks, > Andrei >
-- Regards, Vincenzo
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