On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 04:42:32PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 15:01 +0000, Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote:
> > commit c22ce143d15eb288543fe9873e1c5ac1c01b69a1
> > tree dc7d457b8952fc50dfc90df659b35de4117c61fc
> > parent 7dbdf43cfa635ddc3701cc8d1eab07597cd731c0
> > author Hiro Yoshioka <[email protected]> Fri, 23 Jun 2006 16:04:16 -0700
> > committer Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Fri, 23 Jun 2006 21:42:56 -0700
> >
> > [PATCH] x86: cache pollution aware __copy_from_user_ll()
> >
> > Use the x86 cache-bypassing copy instructions for copy_from_user().
> >
> > Some performance data are
> >
> > Total of GLOBAL_POWER_EVENTS (CPU cycle samples)
> >
> > 2.6.12.4.orig 1921587
> > 2.6.12.4.nt 1599424
> > 1599424/1921587=83.23% (16.77% reduction)
>
> Hi,
>
> while this patch will reduce the number of cycles spent in the kernel,
> it's just pushing the cache miss to userspace (by virtue of doing a
> cache flush effectively)... is this really the right thing? The total
> memory bandwidth will actually increase with this patch if you're
> unlucky (eg if userspace decides to write to this memory eventually)....
But this is a copy _from_ userspace. The userspace app has likely already
brought it into cache before we do the __copy_from_user_ll
Dave
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