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

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Message-ID: <20131031102200.GA10098@gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 31 Oct 2013 11:22:00 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:	Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>
Cc:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, sebastien.dugue@...l.net,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, x86@...nel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Run checksumming in parallel accross multiple alu's


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

> > etc. For such short runtimes make sure the last column displays 
> > close to 100%, so that the PMU results become trustable.
> > 
> > A nehalem+ PMU will allow 2-4 events to be measured in parallel, 
> > plus generics like 'cycles', 'instructions' can be added 'for free' 
> > because they get counted in a separate (fixed purpose) PMU register.
> > 
> > The last colum tells you what percentage of the runtime that 
> > particular event was actually active. 100% (or empty last column) 
> > means it was active all the time.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > 	Ingo
> > 
> 
> Hmm, 
> 
> I ran this test:
> 
> for i in `seq 0 1 3`
> do
> echo $i > /sys/module/csum_test/parameters/module_test_mode
> taskset -c 0 perf stat --repeat 20 -C 0 -e L1-dcache-load-misses -e L1-dcache-prefetches -e cycles -e instructions -ddd ./test.sh
> done

You need to remove '-ddd' which is a shortcut for a ton of useful 
events, but here you want to use fewer events, to increase the 
precision of the measurement.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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