Re: [x86] 339a3922f6: +4.3% aim7 jobs-per-min

From: Maarten Lankhorst
Date: Thu Feb 20 2014 - 08:13:33 EST


op 20-02-14 14:06, Fengguang Wu schreef:
Hi Maarten,

We are glad to find that your commit 339a3922f68dcb7d93001f07b7e914d5cf6c066d
("decrease useless padding") increased aim disk_src performance by 4.3%:

74833276be6802b 339a3922f68dcb7d93001f07b
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511685 ~ 0% +4.3% 533571 ~ 0% TOTAL aim7.2000.jobs-per-min
77.30 ~ 0% -9.9% 69.66 ~ 0% TOTAL time.system_time
1.95 ~ 2% +7.0% 2.09 ~ 2% TOTAL iostat.sda.rrqm/s
23.57 ~ 0% -4.1% 22.60 ~ 0% TOTAL time.elapsed_time
425 ~ 0% -3.1% 412 ~ 0% TOTAL time.percent_of_cpu_this_job_got
7.59 ~ 0% -2.9% 7.37 ~ 0% TOTAL boottime.dhcp
15.24 ~ 0% -1.9% 14.94 ~ 0% TOTAL boottime.boot

Really? I just did it to get rid of the 15-byte nop sequences with tons of prefixes.
Interesting..

~Maarten

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