[PATCH v12 00/31] Speculative page faults

[Laurent Dufour]

Le 06/07/2020 à 11:25, Chinwen Chang a écrit :
> On Thu, 2019-06-20 at 16:19 +0800, Haiyan Song wrote:
>> Hi Laurent,
>>
>> I downloaded your script and run it on Intel 2s skylake platform with spf-v12 patch
>> serials.
>>
>> Here attached the output results of this script.
>>
>> The following comparison result is statistics from the script outputs.
>>
>> a). Enable THP
>>                                              SPF_0          change       SPF_1
>> will-it-scale.page_fault2.per_thread_ops    2664190.8      -11.7%       2353637.6
>> will-it-scale.page_fault3.per_thread_ops    4480027.2      -14.7%       3819331.9
>>
>>
>> b). Disable THP
>>                                              SPF_0           change      SPF_1
>> will-it-scale.page_fault2.per_thread_ops    2653260.7       -10%        2385165.8
>> will-it-scale.page_fault3.per_thread_ops    4436330.1       -12.4%      3886734.2
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Haiyan Song
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 10:44:47AM +0200, Laurent Dufour wrote:
>>> Le 14/06/2019 à 10:37, Laurent Dufour a écrit :
>>>> Please find attached the script I run to get these numbers.
>>>> This would be nice if you could give it a try on your victim node and share the result.
>>>
>>> Sounds that the Intel mail fitering system doesn't like the attached shell script.
>>> Please find it there: https://gist.github.com/ldu4/a5cc1a93f293108ea387d43d5d5e7f44
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Laurent.
>>>
> 
> Hi Laurent,
> 
> We merged SPF v11 and some patches from v12 into our platforms. After
> several experiments, we observed SPF has obvious improvements on the
> launch time of applications, especially for those high-TLP ones,
> 
> # launch time of applications(s):
> 
> package           version      w/ SPF      w/o SPF      improve(%)
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> Baidu maps        10.13.3      0.887       0.98         9.49
> Taobao            8.4.0.35     1.227       1.293        5.10
> Meituan           9.12.401     1.107       1.543        28.26
> WeChat            7.0.3        2.353       2.68         12.20
> Honor of Kings    1.43.1.6     6.63        6.713        1.24

That's great news, thanks for reporting this!

> 
> By the way, we have verified our platforms with those patches and
> achieved the goal of mass production.

Another good news!
For my information, what is your targeted hardware?

Cheers,
Laurent.