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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 0/2] mm/mprotect: micro-optimization work
On Mon, Mar 30, 2026 at 03:55:51PM -0400, Luke Yang wrote:
> Hi Pedro,
>
> Thanks for working on this. I just wanted to share that we've created a
> test kernel with your patches and tested on the following CPUs:
>
> --- aarch64 ---
> Ampere Altra
> Ampere Altra Max
>
> --- x86_64 ---
> AMD EPYC 7713
> AMD EPYC 7351
> AMD EPYC 7542
> AMD EPYC 7573X
> AMD EPYC 7702
> AMD EPYC 9754
> Intel Xeon Gold 6126
> Into Xeon Gold 6330
> Intel Xeon Gold 6530
> Intel Xeon Platinum 8351N
> Intel Core i7-6820HQ
>
> --- ppc64le ---
> IBM Power 10
>
> On average, we see improvements ranging from a minimum of 5% to a
> maximum of 55%, with most improvements showing around a 25% speed up in
> the libmicro/mprot_tw4m micro benchmark.

Nice! Thanks for the tests. I'm wondering, what CPU saw 5% and what CPU
saw 55%? Or was it just inter-run variance?

--
Pedro

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