Re: x86, ARM, PARISC, PPC, MIPS and Sparc folks please run this

[Kurt Wall]

Quoth Jamie Lokier:
> Dear All,
> 
> I'd appreciate if folks would run the program below on various
> machines, especially those whose caches aren't automatically coherent
> at the hardware level.

[snip]

----- system one ---
$ time ./mmap 
Test separation: 4096 bytes: pass
Test separation: 8192 bytes: pass
Test separation: 16384 bytes: pass
Test separation: 32768 bytes: pass
Test separation: 65536 bytes: pass
Test separation: 131072 bytes: pass
Test separation: 262144 bytes: pass
Test separation: 524288 bytes: pass
Test separation: 1048576 bytes: pass
Test separation: 2097152 bytes: pass
Test separation: 4194304 bytes: pass
Test separation: 8388608 bytes: pass
Test separation: 16777216 bytes: pass
VM page alias coherency test: all sizes passed

real    0m0.475s
user    0m0.250s
sys     0m0.020s
$ cat /proc/cpuinfo 
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 5
model name      : Pentium II (Deschutes)
stepping        : 2
cpu MHz         : 349.200
cache size      : 512 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 2
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr
bogomips        : 696.32
-----

----- system two ---
[kwall]$ time ./mmap 
Test separation: 4096 bytes: pass
Test separation: 8192 bytes: pass
Test separation: 16384 bytes: pass
Test separation: 32768 bytes: pass
Test separation: 65536 bytes: pass
Test separation: 131072 bytes: pass
Test separation: 262144 bytes: pass
Test separation: 524288 bytes: pass
Test separation: 1048576 bytes: pass
Test separation: 2097152 bytes: pass
Test separation: 4194304 bytes: pass
Test separation: 8388608 bytes: pass
Test separation: 16777216 bytes: pass
VM page alias coherency test: all sizes passed

real    0m0.134s
user    0m0.120s
sys     0m0.010s
]$ cat /proc/cpuinfo 
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 8
model name      : Pentium III (Coppermine)
stepping        : 3
cpu MHz         : 801.830
cache size      : 256 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 2
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse
bogomips        : 1599.07
-----

---- system three -----
$ time ./mmap 
Test separation: 4096 bytes: FAIL - too slow
Test separation: 8192 bytes: FAIL - too slow
Test separation: 16384 bytes: FAIL - too slow
Test separation: 32768 bytes: pass
Test separation: 65536 bytes: pass
Test separation: 131072 bytes: pass
Test separation: 262144 bytes: pass
Test separation: 524288 bytes: pass
Test separation: 1048576 bytes: pass
Test separation: 2097152 bytes: pass
Test separation: 4194304 bytes: pass
Test separation: 8388608 bytes: pass
Test separation: 16777216 bytes: pass
VM page alias coherency test: minimum fast spacing: 32768 (8 pages)

real    0m0.101s
user    0m0.090s
sys     0m0.010s
root@advent:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo 
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
cpu family      : 6
model           : 4
model name      : AMD Athlon(tm) Processor
stepping        : 2
cpu MHz         : 1210.825
cache size      : 256 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 1
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow
bogomips        : 2418.27
----- 

Now, that was interesting. The AMD is my fastest machine...

Kurt
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