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page is non-executable the contents of the i-cache are unimportant so this call is just adding unneeded overhead when inserting pages. While doing research using gem5 with an O3 pipeline and 1k/32k/1M iTLB/L1 iCache/L2 Bjoern Zeeb (bz@) observed a fairly high rate of calls into arm64_icache_sync_range() from pmap_enter() along with a high number of instruction fetches and iTLB/iCache hits. Limiting the calls to arm64_icache_sync_range() to only executable pages, we observe the iTLB and iCache Hit going down by about 43%. These numbers are quite misleading when looked at alone as at the same time instructions retired were reduced by 19.2% and instruction fetches were reduced by 38.8%. Overall this reduced the runtime of the test program by 22.4%. On Juno hardware, in steady-state, running the same test, using the cycle count to determine runtime, we do see a reduction of up to 28.9% in runtime. While these numbers certainly depend on the program executed, we expect an overall performance improvement. Reported by: bz Obtained from: ABT Systems Ltd MFC after: 1 week Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation |
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