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[Xen-devel] Re: lmbench lat_mmap slowdown with CONFIG_PARAVIRT

To: Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-devel] Re: lmbench lat_mmap slowdown with CONFIG_PARAVIRT
From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:23:13 -0800
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Nick Piggin wrote:
Oh, _llc_ references/misses? Ouch.

You have, what 32K L1I, 32K L1D, and 4MB L2? And even this microbenchmark
is seeing increased L2 misses by nearly 3%. Hmm, I wonder where that is
coming from? Instruction fetches?

I assume so. There should be no extra data accesses with CONFIG_PARAVIRT (hm, there's probably some extra stack/spill traffic, but I surely hope that's not falling out of cache).

   J

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