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Re: [PATCH] Count number of logical processors sharing L2 cache
- From: Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>
- To: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
- Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>, GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Tue, 31 May 2016 10:01:51 -0400
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Count number of logical processors sharing L2 cache
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On 05/24/2016 05:35 PM, H.J. Lu wrote:
> CAT dedicates part of L3 cache to certain processor or process so
> that L3 cache is always available to them. Glibc tries not to take all
> L3 cache in memcpy/memset so thar L3 cache is available for other
> operations within the same process as well as to other processor/process.
> CAT and glibc work at different angels. There is no direct conflict between
> CAT and glibc. At the moment, I am not sure if CAT-aware glibc will
> improve performance.
What do you mean by "no direct conflict?"
If glibc tuns its own algorithms to use 1/4 of L3, but CAT has only
allocated 1/5 of L3 to that process, then glibc's algoirthms, whose
intent was to use a small amount of L3 are now using *more* L3 than
the entire process has and that could impact performance?
Did I miss something?
There could be opportunities for incorrect tunings if glibc is not
CAT-aware?
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Cheers,
Carlos.