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Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2023 22:14:52 +0200
From: "Robin Jarry" <rjarry@...hat.com>
To: "Waiman Long" <longman@...hat.com>,
"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@...utronix.de>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] x86/speculation: Disable IBRS when idle
Waiman Long, Jun 16, 2023 at 21:59:
> For Intel processors that need to turn on IBRS to protect against
> Spectre v2 and Retbleed, the IBRS bit in the SPEC_CTRL MSR affects
> the performance of the whole core even if only one thread is turning
> it on when running in the kernel. For user space heavy applications,
> the performance impact of occasionally turning IBRS on during syscalls
> shouldn't be significant. Unfortunately, that is not the case when the
> sibling thread is idling in the kernel. In that case, the performance
> impact can be significant.
>
> When DPDK is running on an isolated CPU thread processing network packets
> in user space while its sibling thread is idle. The performance of the
> busy DPDK thread with IBRS on and off in the sibling idle thread are:
>
> IBRS on IBRS off
> ------- --------
> packets/second: 7.8M 10.4M
> avg tsc cycles/packet: 282.26 209.86
>
> This is a 25% performance degradation. The test system is a Intel Xeon
> 4114 CPU @ 2.20GHz.
>
> This patch series turns off IBRS when in various idle mode to eliminate
> the performance impact of the idling thread on its busy sibling thread.
Hi Longman,
thanks a lot for the quick turnaround on this issue.
Tested-by: Robin Jarry <rjarry@...hat.com>
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