On Mon, 02 Nov 2015, Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 12:15 PM, Davidlohr Bueso <[email protected]> wrote:
So I ran some experiments on an IvyBridge (2.8GHz) and the cost of XCHG is
constantly cheaper (by at least half the latency) than MFENCE. While there
was a decent amount of variation, this difference remained rather constant.
Mind testing "lock addq $0,0(%rsp)" instead of mfence? That's what we
use on old cpu's without one (ie 32-bit).
I'm getting results very close to xchg.
I'm not actually convinced that mfence is necessarily a good idea. I
could easily see it being microcode, for example.
Interesting.
At least on my Haswell, the "lock addq" is pretty much exactly half
the cost of "mfence".
Ok, his coincides with my results on IvB.
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