System: Oracle X8-2
CPU: 2 nodes * 26 cores/node * 2 threads/core
Intel Xeon Platinum 8270CL (Skylakex, 6:85:7)
Memory: 3TB evenly split between nodes
Microcode: 0x5002f01
scaling_governor: performance
L3 size: 36MB
intel_pstate/no_turbo: 1
$ for i in 2 8 32 128 512; do
perf bench mem memset -f x86-64-movnt -s ${i}MB
done
# Running 'mem/memset' benchmark:
# function 'x86-64-movnt' (movnt-based memset() in arch/x86/lib/memset_64.S)
# Copying 2MB bytes ...
6.361971 GB/sec
# Copying 8MB bytes ...
6.300403 GB/sec
# Copying 32MB bytes ...
6.288992 GB/sec
# Copying 128MB bytes ...
6.328793 GB/sec
# Copying 512MB bytes ...
6.324471 GB/sec
# Performance comparison of 'perf bench mem memset -l 1' for x86-64-stosb
# (X86_FEATURE_ERMS) and x86-64-movnt:
x86-64-stosb (5 runs) x86-64-movnt (5 runs) speedup
----------------------- ----------------------- -------
size BW ( pstdev) BW ( pstdev)
16MB 20.38 GB/s ( +- 2.58%) 6.25 GB/s ( +- 0.41%) -69.28%
128MB 6.52 GB/s ( +- 0.14%) 6.31 GB/s ( +- 0.47%) -3.22%
1024MB 6.48 GB/s ( +- 0.31%) 6.24 GB/s ( +- 0.00%) -3.70%
4096MB 6.51 GB/s ( +- 0.01%) 6.27 GB/s ( +- 0.42%) -3.68%
Comparing perf stats for size=4096MB:
$ perf stat -r 5 --all-user -e ... perf bench mem memset -l 1 -s 4096MB -f x86-64-stosb
# Running 'mem/memset' benchmark:
# function 'x86-64-stosb' (movsb-based memset() in arch/x86/lib/memset_64.S)
# Copying 4096MB bytes ...
6.516972 GB/sec (+- 0.01%)
Performance counter stats for 'perf bench mem memset -l 1 -s 4096MB -f x86-64-stosb' (5 runs):
3,357,373,317 cpu-cycles # 1.133 GHz ( +- 0.01% ) (29.38%)
165,063,710 instructions # 0.05 insn per cycle ( +- 1.54% ) (35.29%)
358,997 cache-references # 0.121 M/sec ( +- 0.89% ) (35.32%)
205,420 cache-misses # 57.221 % of all cache refs ( +- 3.61% ) (35.36%)
6,117,673 branch-instructions # 2.065 M/sec ( +- 1.48% ) (35.38%)
58,309 branch-misses # 0.95% of all branches ( +- 1.30% ) (35.39%)
31,329,466 bus-cycles # 10.575 M/sec ( +- 0.03% ) (23.56%)
68,543,766 L1-dcache-load-misses # 157.03% of all L1-dcache accesses ( +- 0.02% ) (23.53%)
43,648,909 L1-dcache-loads # 14.734 M/sec ( +- 0.50% ) (23.50%)
137,498 LLC-loads # 0.046 M/sec ( +- 0.21% ) (23.49%)
12,308 LLC-load-misses # 8.95% of all LL-cache accesses ( +- 2.52% ) (23.49%)
26,335 LLC-stores # 0.009 M/sec ( +- 5.65% ) (11.75%)
25,008 LLC-store-misses # 0.008 M/sec ( +- 3.42% ) (11.75%)
2.962842 +- 0.000162 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.01% )
$ perf stat -r 5 --all-user -e ... perf bench mem memset -l 1 -s 4096MB -f x86-64-movnt
# Running 'mem/memset' benchmark:
# function 'x86-64-movnt' (movnt-based memset() in arch/x86/lib/memset_64.S)
# Copying 4096MB bytes ...
6.283420 GB/sec (+- 0.01%)
Performance counter stats for 'perf bench mem memset -l 1 -s 4096MB -f x86-64-movnt' (5 runs):
4,462,272,094 cpu-cycles # 1.322 GHz ( +- 0.30% ) (29.38%)
1,633,675,881 instructions # 0.37 insn per cycle ( +- 0.21% ) (35.28%)
283,627 cache-references # 0.084 M/sec ( +- 0.58% ) (35.31%)
28,824 cache-misses # 10.163 % of all cache refs ( +- 20.67% ) (35.34%)
139,719,697 branch-instructions # 41.407 M/sec ( +- 0.16% ) (35.35%)
58,062 branch-misses # 0.04% of all branches ( +- 1.49% ) (35.36%)
41,760,350 bus-cycles # 12.376 M/sec ( +- 0.05% ) (23.55%)
303,300 L1-dcache-load-misses # 0.69% of all L1-dcache accesses ( +- 2.08% ) (23.53%)
43,769,498 L1-dcache-loads # 12.972 M/sec ( +- 0.54% ) (23.52%)
99,570 LLC-loads # 0.030 M/sec ( +- 1.06% ) (23.52%)
1,966 LLC-load-misses # 1.97% of all LL-cache accesses ( +- 6.17% ) (23.52%)
129 LLC-stores # 0.038 K/sec ( +- 27.85% ) (11.75%)
7 LLC-store-misses # 0.002 K/sec ( +- 47.82% ) (11.75%)
3.37465 +- 0.00474 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.14% )
It's unclear if using MOVNT is a net negative on Skylake. For bulk stores
MOVNT is slightly slower than REP;STOSB, but from the L1-dcache-load-misses
stats (L1D.REPLACEMENT), it does elide the write-allocate and thus helps
with cache efficiency.
However, we err on the side of caution and mark Skylake
X86_FEATURE_MOVNT_SLOW.
Signed-off-by: Ankur Arora <ankur.a.arora@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c | 15 +++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
index 4e1558d22a5f..222d6f095da1 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
@@ -96,6 +96,21 @@ void check_movnt_quirks(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
* to worry about any CONFIG_X86_32 families that don't
* support SSE2/MOVNT.
*/
+ if (c->x86_vendor == X86_VENDOR_INTEL) {
+ if (c->x86 == 6) {
+ switch (c->x86_model) {
+ case INTEL_FAM6_SKYLAKE_L:
+ fallthrough;
+ case INTEL_FAM6_SKYLAKE:
+ fallthrough;
+ case INTEL_FAM6_SKYLAKE_X:
+ set_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_MOVNT_SLOW);
+ break;
+ default:
+ break;
+ }
+ }
+ }
#endif /* CONFIG_X86_64*/
}
--
2.29.2
