Re: [RFC PATCH 2/3] x86/io: implement 256-bit IO read and write

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 3:32 PM, Rahul Lakkireddy
<rahul.lakkireddy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Monday, March 03/19/18, 2018 at 20:13:10 +0530, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>> On Mon, 19 Mar 2018, Rahul Lakkireddy wrote:

>> Aside of that I very much doubt that this is faster than 4 consecutive
>> 64bit reads/writes as you have the full overhead of
>> kernel_fpu_begin()/end() for each access.
>>
>> You did not provide any numbers for this so its even harder to
>> determine.
>>
>
> Sorry about that.  Here are the numbers with and without this series.
>
> When reading up to 2 GB on-chip memory via MMIO, the time taken:
>
> Without Series        With Series
> (64-bit read)         (256-bit read)
>
> 52 seconds            26 seconds
>
> As can be seen, we see good improvement with doing 256-bits at a
> time.

But this is kinda synthetic test, right?
If you run in a normal use case where kernel not only collecting logs,
but doing something else, especially with frequent userspace
interaction, would be trend the same?

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko