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From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman•id.au>
To: Christophe LEROY <christophe.leroy@c-s•fr>,
	Anton Blanchard <anton@samba•org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists•ozlabs.org, paulus@samba•org,
	benh@kernel•crashing.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Avoid taking a data miss on every userspace instruction miss
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 20:22:40 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8737dca9ov.fsf@concordia.ellerman.id.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <09625197-3387-eeb6-5f80-5d14d1332b2d@c-s.fr>

Christophe LEROY <christophe.leroy@c-s•fr> writes:

> Hi Anton,
>
> Le 04/04/2017 =C3=A0 00:00, Anton Blanchard a =C3=A9crit :
>> Hi Christophe,
>>
>>>> -	if (user_mode(regs))
>>>> +	if (!is_exec && user_mode(regs))
>>>
>>> Shouldn't it also check 'is_write' ?
>>> If it is a store, is_write should be set, shouldn't it ?
>>
>> Thanks, Ben had the same suggestion. I'll add that further optimisation
>> in a subsequent patch.
>>
>
> For your information, I made some benchmark test using 'perf stat' with=20
> your app on MPC8321 and MPC885, and I got the following results:

 MPC8321:
 before        47386      faults=20
 after         35181      faults        -12205
 is_write      35181      faults        -12205=20

So that's good.

 MPC885:
 before:      176067      dTLB-load-misses=20
               52722      iTLB-load-misses=20
               25718      faults=20
 after:       152462      dTLB-load-misses    -23605
               52715      iTLB-load-misses        -7
               19611      faults               -6107

 is_write:    147162      dTLB-load-misses    -28905
               52716      iTLB-load-misses        -6
               19610      faults               -6108

Also good, and shows that is_write idea would be even better.

cheers

  reply	other threads:[~2017-04-13 10:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-03  6:41 [PATCH] powerpc: Avoid taking a data miss on every userspace instruction miss Anton Blanchard
2017-04-03 18:55 ` LEROY Christophe
2017-04-03 22:00   ` Anton Blanchard
2017-04-12 16:15     ` Christophe LEROY
2017-04-13 10:22       ` Michael Ellerman [this message]
2017-04-06 13:06 ` Michael Ellerman
2017-04-13  1:16   ` Balbir Singh
2017-04-13  1:29     ` Anton Blanchard
2017-04-13 10:24     ` Michael Ellerman
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2017-03-31  3:05 [PATCH] " Anton Blanchard

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