linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86: Run checksumming in parallel accross multiple alu's

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Message-ID: <20131101092148.GB27063@gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 1 Nov 2013 10:21:48 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:	Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>
Cc:	Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Run checksumming in parallel accross multiple alu's


* Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com> wrote:

> Prefetch and simluated adcx/adox from above:
>  Performance counter stats for './test.sh' (20 runs):
> 
>         35,704,331 L1-dcache-load-misses                                         ( +-  0.07% ) [75.00%]
>                  0 L1-dcache-prefetches                                         [75.00%]
>     19,751,409,264 cycles                    #    0.000 GHz                      ( +-  0.59% ) [75.00%]
>         34,850,056 branch-misses                                                 ( +-  1.29% ) [75.00%]
> 
>        7.768602160 seconds time elapsed                                          ( +-  1.38% )

btw., you might also want to try measuring only the basics:

   -e cycles -e instructions -e branches -e branch-misses

that should give you 100% in the last column and should also allow 
you to double check whether all the PMU counts are correct: is it 
the expected number of instructions, expected number of branches, 
expected number of branch-misses, etc.

Then you can remove branch stats and add just L1-dcache stats - and 
still be 100% covered:

   -e cycles -e instructions -e L1-dcache-loads -e L1-dcache-load-misses

etc.

Just so that you can trust what the PMU tells you. Prefetch counts 
are sometimes off, they might include speculative activities, etc.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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