On Thu, 30 May 2019 22:12:13 -0500 Michael Hochee <[email protected]>
wrote:

:>I recently added the BNDRY=PAGE parameter to a set of STORAGE OBTAINS which 
acquire storage areas of various sizes from several low private  subpools. My 
intent was a reduction of CPU used by subsequent MVCLE instructions, as ADM 
would more likely be employed for MVCLE executes, since the storage areas 
involved were page aligned (apparently an ADM pre-req.)  Unfortunately my 
initial testing revealed a significant increase in CPU consumption, rather than 
a reduction. 

:>I did a few searches of the IBM-MAIN archive and found nothing involving 
increased CPU overhead resulting from BNDRY=PAGE usage. Any thoughts on what 
might be causing the elevated CPU?  Again, the only change made was adding 
BNDRY=PAGE. (I have since backed the change off, tested, reapplied the change 
and tested with the same results) 

Might it be that the page aligned storage is less likely to be assigned at
GETMAIN time, waiting for first reference, thus guaranteeing page-fault
processing?

Try fetching/altering one byte on the page before doing the timing.

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