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SubjectRe: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC] virtio: put last seen used index into ring itself
On 05/23/2010 06:51 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>>
>>> So locked version seems to be faster than unlocked,
>>> and share/unshare not to matter?
>>>
>>>
>> May be due to the processor using the LOCK operation as a hint to
>> reserve the cacheline for a bit.
>>
> Maybe we should use atomics on index then?
>

This should only be helpful if you access the cacheline several times in
a row. That's not the case in virtio (or here).

I think the problem is that LOCKSHARE and SHARE are not symmetric, so
they can't be directly compared.

> OK, after adding mb in code patch will be sent separately,
> the test works for my workstation. locked is still fastest,
> unshared sometimes shows wins and sometimes loses over shared.
>
> [root@qus19 ~]# ./cachebounce share 0 1
> CPU 0: share cacheline: 6638521 usec
> CPU 1: share cacheline: 6638478 usec
>

66 ns? nice.

> [root@qus19 ~]# ./cachebounce share 0 2
> CPU 0: share cacheline: 14529198 usec
> CPU 2: share cacheline: 14529156 usec
>

140 ns, not too bad. I hope I'm not misinterpreting the results.

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function



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