Re:Re: [PATCH] x86: Accelerate copy_page with non-temporal in X86

[Kemeng Shi]

on 2021/4/13 19:01, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> + linux-nvdimm
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> Original mail at https://lkml.kernel.org/r/3f28adee-8214-fa8e-b368-eaf8b193469e@xxxxxxxxxx
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> On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 02:25:58PM +0800, Kemeng Shi wrote:
>> I'm using AEP with dax_kmem drvier, and AEP is export as a NUMA node in
> 
> What is AEP?
> 
AEP is a type of persistent memory produced by Intel. It's slower than
normal memory but is persistent.
>> my system. I will move cold pages from DRAM node to AEP node with
>> move_pages system call. With old "rep movsq', it costs 2030ms to move
>> 1 GB pages. With "movnti", it only cost about 890ms to move 1GB pages.
> 
> So there's __copy_user_nocache() which does NT stores.
> 
>> -	ALTERNATIVE "jmp copy_page_regs", "", X86_FEATURE_REP_GOOD
>> +	ALTERNATIVE_2 "jmp copy_page_regs", "", X86_FEATURE_REP_GOOD, \
>> +                      "jmp copy_page_nt", X86_FEATURE_XMM2
> 
> This makes every machine which has sse2 do NT stores now. Which means
> *every* machine practically.
> 
Yes. And NT stores should be better for copy_page especially copying a lot
of pages as only partial memory of copied page will be access recently.
> The folks on linux-nvdimm@ should be able to give you a better idea what
> to do.
> 
> HTH.
> 
Thanks for response and help.