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SubjectRe: another pmem variant V2
On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 10:11:29PM +0000, Elliott, Robert (Server Storage) wrote:
> I used fio to test 4 KiB random read and write IOPS
> on a 2-socket x86 DDR4 system. With various cache attributes:
>
> attr read write notes
> ---- ---- ----- -----
> UC 37 K 21 K ioremap_nocache
> WB 3.6 M 2.5 M ioremap
> WC 764 K 3.7 M ioremap_wc
> WT <not tested yet> ioremap_wt
>
> So, although UC and WT are the only modes certain to be safe,
> the V1 default of UC provides abysmal performance - worse than
> a consumer-class SATA SSD.

It doesn't look quite as bad on my setup, but performance is fairly
bad here as well.

> A solution for x86 is to use the MOVNTI instruction in WB
> mode. This non-temporal hint uses a buffer like the write
> combining buffer, not filling the cache and not stopping
> everything in the CPU. The kernel function __copy_from_user()
> uses that instruction (with SFENCE at the end) - see
> arch/x86/lib/copy_user_nocache_64.S.
>
> If I made the change from memcpy() to __copy_from_user()
> correctly, that results in:
>
> attr read write notes
> ---- ---- ----- -----
> WB w/NTI 2.4 M 2.6 M __copy_from_user()
> WC w/NTI 3.2 M 2.1 M __copy_from_user()

That looks a lot better. It doesn't help us with a pmem device
mapped directly into userspace using mmap with the DAX infrastructure,
though.

Note when we want to move to non-temporal copies we'll need to add
a new prototype, as __copy_from_user isn't guaranteed to use these,
and it is defined to only work on user addresses. That doesn't matter
on x86 but would blow up on say sparc or s390.



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