Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 7 Sep 2005 09:14:23 -0700 | From | Grant Grundler <> | Subject | Re: Prefetch kernel stacks to speed up context switch |
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On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 04:52:17PM +0800, Coywolf Qi Hunt wrote: > On 9/7/05, Chen, Kenneth W <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> wrote: > > Repost previously discussed patch (on Jul 27, 2005).
For reference: http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/archives/linux-ia64/0507/14686.html
> Do you have any benchmarks?
Have you read the discussion? See: http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/archives/linux-ia64/0507/14685.html
Ken didn't post any benchmark results originally but clearly stated the cacheline misses were occurring enough to be measurable. Just knowing which workload and how much much time was spent stalling for cacheline misses should be sufficient.
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