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Re: [LKP] [lkp] [x86/hweight] 65ea11ec6a: will-it-scale.per_process_ops 9.3% improvement

From "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [LKP] [lkp] [x86/hweight] 65ea11ec6a: will-it-scale.per_process_ops 9.3% improvement
Date 2016-08-18 06:00 +0200
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On August 17, 2016 8:45:13 PM PDT, Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> wrote:
>On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 03:29:04PM -0700, Huang, Ying wrote:
>> branch-miss-rate decreased from ~0.30% to ~0.043%.
>> 
>> So I guess there are some code alignment change, which caused
>decreased
>> branch miss rate.
>
>Hrrm, I still can't imagine how that would happen if the machine
>supports POPCNT and we never call the __sw_hweight* variants. Or does
>it?
>
>Can you paste /proc/cpuinfo from that Sandy Bridge-EP box?
>
>Thanks.

popcnt was introduced in Nehalem AFAIK, two generations before Sandy Bridge.
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Re: [lkp] [x86/hweight]  65ea11ec6a:  will-it-scale.per_process_ops 9.3% improvement "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> - 2016-08-16 19:00 +0200
  Re: [lkp] [x86/hweight]  65ea11ec6a:  will-it-scale.per_process_ops  9.3% improvement Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> - 2016-08-16 19:20 +0200
    Re: [lkp] [x86/hweight]  65ea11ec6a:  will-it-scale.per_process_ops 9.3% improvement "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> - 2016-08-17 01:20 +0200
      Re: [lkp] [x86/hweight]  65ea11ec6a:  will-it-scale.per_process_ops  9.3% improvement Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> - 2016-08-17 07:50 +0200
        Re: [LKP] [lkp] [x86/hweight] 65ea11ec6a: will-it-scale.per_process_ops 9.3% improvement "Huang\, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> - 2016-08-18 00:30 +0200
          Re: [LKP] [lkp] [x86/hweight] 65ea11ec6a:  will-it-scale.per_process_ops 9.3% improvement Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> - 2016-08-18 05:50 +0200
            Re: [LKP] [lkp] [x86/hweight] 65ea11ec6a: will-it-scale.per_process_ops 9.3% improvement "Huang\, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> - 2016-08-18 06:00 +0200
              Re: [LKP] [lkp] [x86/hweight] 65ea11ec6a:  will-it-scale.per_process_ops 9.3% improvement Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> - 2016-08-18 06:20 +0200
            Re: [LKP] [lkp] [x86/hweight] 65ea11ec6a: will-it-scale.per_process_ops 9.3% improvement "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> - 2016-08-18 06:00 +0200
      Re: [lkp] [x86/hweight]  65ea11ec6a:  will-it-scale.per_process_ops  9.3% improvement Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-08-17 08:50 +0200

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