On Tue, Mar 06, 2018 at 08:55:57AM +0100, Vlastimil Babka wrote: > On 03/05/2018 12:41 PM, Aaron Lu wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 02, 2018 at 06:55:25PM +0100, Vlastimil Babka wrote: > >> On 03/01/2018 03:00 PM, Michal Hocko wrote: > >>> > >>> I am really surprised that this has such a big impact. > >> > >> It's even stranger to me. Struct page is 64 bytes these days, exactly a > >> a cache line. Unless that changed, Intel CPUs prefetched a "buddy" cache > >> line (that forms an aligned 128 bytes block with the one we touch). > >> Which is exactly a order-0 buddy struct page! Maybe that implicit > >> prefetching stopped at L2 and explicit goes all the way to L1, can't > > > > The Intel Architecture Optimization Manual section 7.3.2 says: > > > > prefetchT0 - fetch data into all cache levels > > Intel Xeon Processors based on Nehalem, Westmere, Sandy Bridge and newer > > microarchitectures: 1st, 2nd and 3rd level cache. > > > > prefetchT2 - fetch data into 2nd and 3rd level caches (identical to > > prefetchT1) > > Intel Xeon Processors based on Nehalem, Westmere, Sandy Bridge and newer > > microarchitectures: 2nd and 3rd level cache. > > > > prefetchNTA - fetch data into non-temporal cache close to the processor, > > minimizing cache pollution > > Intel Xeon Processors based on Nehalem, Westmere, Sandy Bridge and newer > > microarchitectures: must fetch into 3rd level cache with fast replacement. > > > > I tried 'prefetcht0' and 'prefetcht2' instead of the default > > 'prefetchNTA' on a 2 sockets Intel Skylake, the two ended up with about > > the same performance number as prefetchNTA. I had expected prefetchT0 to > > deliver a better score if it was indeed due to L1D since prefetchT2 will > > not place data into L1 while prefetchT0 will, but looks like it is not > > the case here. > > > > It feels more like the buddy cacheline isn't in any level of the caches > > without prefetch for some reason. > > So the adjacent line prefetch might be disabled? Could you check bios or > the MSR mentioned in > https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/disclosure-of-hw-prefetcher-control-on-some-intel-processors root@lkp-bdw-ep2 ~# rdmsr 0x1a4 0 Looks like this feature isn't disabled(the doc you linked says value 1 means disable). > >> remember. Would that make such a difference? It would be nice to do some > >> perf tests with cache counters to see what is really going on... > > > > Compare prefetchT2 to no-prefetch, I saw these metrics change: > > > > no-prefetch change prefetchT2 metrics > > \ \ > > stddev stddev > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > 0.18 +0.0 0.18 perf-stat.branch-miss-rate% > > 8.268e+09 +3.8% 8.585e+09 perf-stat.branch-misses > > 2.333e+10 +4.7% 2.443e+10 perf-stat.cache-misses > > 2.402e+11 +5.0% 2.522e+11 perf-stat.cache-references > > 3.52 -1.1% 3.48 perf-stat.cpi > > 0.02 -0.0 0.01 ±3% perf-stat.dTLB-load-miss-rate% > > 8.677e+08 -7.3% 8.048e+08 ±3% perf-stat.dTLB-load-misses > > 1.18 +0.0 1.19 perf-stat.dTLB-store-miss-rate% > > 2.359e+10 +6.0% 2.502e+10 perf-stat.dTLB-store-misses > > 1.979e+12 +5.0% 2.078e+12 perf-stat.dTLB-stores > > 6.126e+09 +10.1% 6.745e+09 ±3% perf-stat.iTLB-load-misses > > 3464 -8.4% 3172 ±3% perf-stat.instructions-per-iTLB-miss > > 0.28 +1.1% 0.29 perf-stat.ipc > > 2.929e+09 +5.1% 3.077e+09 perf-stat.minor-faults > > 9.244e+09 +4.7% 9.681e+09 perf-stat.node-loads > > 2.491e+08 +5.8% 2.634e+08 perf-stat.node-store-misses > > 6.472e+09 +6.1% 6.869e+09 perf-stat.node-stores > > 2.929e+09 +5.1% 3.077e+09 perf-stat.page-faults > > 2182469 -4.2% 2090977 perf-stat.path-length > > > > Not sure if this is useful though... > > Looks like most stats increased in absolute values as the work done > increased and this is a time-limited benchmark? Although number of Yes it is. > instructions (calculated from itlb misses and insns-per-itlb-miss) shows > less than 1% increase, so dunno. And the improvement comes from reduced > dTLB-load-misses? That makes no sense for order-0 buddy struct pages > which always share a page. And the memmap mapping should use huge pages. THP is disabled to stress order 0 pages(should have mentioned this in patch's description, sorry about this). > BTW what is path-length? It's the instruction path length: the number of machine code instructions required to execute a section of a computer program. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>
