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SubjectRe: [libata/ahci] 8a4aeec8d2d: +138.4% perf-stat.dTLB-store-misses, +37.2% perf-stat.dTLB-load-misses
On 04/23/2014 01:11 AM, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 12:29 AM, Jet Chen <jet.chen@intel.com> wrote:
>> HI Dan,
>>
>> we noticed the below changes on
>>
>> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/libata for-next
>> commit 8a4aeec8d2d6a3edeffbdfae451cdf05cbf0fefd ("libata/ahci: accommodate
>> tag ordered controllers")
>
> Hi, was this on simulated hardware or a real AHCI controller and disk?
>

Testing was on a physical machine with a real AHCI controller.

root@bay ~# lspci | grep AHCI
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801IR/IO/IH (ICH9R/DO/DH) 6 port SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 02)

> It does appear this test noticed increased throughput:
>
> 203893 ~ 0% +3.7% 211474 ~ 0% TOTAL iostat.sda.wkB/s
>
> I wonder if ap->last_tag can be moved to a hotter cacheline, but if
> throughput goes up I can imagine it throws off the cpu statistics
> quite a bit.
>


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