Re: [PATCH 0/3] PTI for x86-32 Fixes and Updates

[Pavel Machek]

On Mon 2018-07-23 12:00:08, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 7:09 AM Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Meanwhile... it looks like gcc is not slowed down significantly, but
> > other stuff sees 30% .. 40% slowdowns... which is rather
> > significant.
> 
> That is more or less expected.

Ok, so I was wrong. bzip2 showed 30% slowdown, but running test in a
loop, I get (on v4.18) that, too.

That tells me that something is wrong with machine I'm using for
benchmarking. Whether KPTI  is enabled can still be measured with the
bzip2 pipeline, but the effect is far more subtle.

							Pavel

pavel@amd:~$ while true; do time cat /dev/urandom | head -c 10000000 |
bzip2 -9 - | wc -c ; done10044031
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5.35user 1.04system 6.20 (0m6.201s) elapsed 103.17%CPU
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