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Ilpo Järvinen bcdb2e9d9f selftests/resctrl: Read in less obvious order to defeat prefetch optimizations
When reading memory in order, HW prefetching optimizations will
interfere with measuring how caches and memory are being accessed. This
adds noise into the results.

Change the fill_buf reading loop to not use an obvious in-order access
using multiply by a prime and modulo.

Using a prime multiplier with modulo ensures the entire buffer is
eventually read. 23 is small enough that the reads are spread out but
wrapping does not occur very frequently (wrapping too often can trigger
L2 hits more frequently which causes noise to the test because getting
the data from LLC is not required).

It was discovered that not all primes work equally well and some can
cause wildly unstable results (e.g., in an earlier version of this
patch, the reads were done in reversed order and 59 was used as the
prime resulting in unacceptably high and unstable results in MBA and
MBM test on some architectures).

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-kselftest/TYAPR01MB6330025B5E6537F94DA49ACB8B499@TYAPR01MB6330.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com/
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
History 2024-02-13 13:56:44 -07:00
arch livepatch: Move tests from lib/livepatch to selftests/livepatch 2024-01-22 10:29:47 -07:00
block for-6.8/block-2024-01-18 2024-01-18 18:22:40 -08:00
certs This update includes the following changes: 2023-11-02 16:15:30 -10:00
crypto crypto: scomp - fix req->dst buffer overflow 2023-12-29 11:25:56 +08:00
Documentation kselftests: lib.mk: Add TEST_GEN_MODS_DIR variable 2024-01-22 10:29:41 -07:00
drivers Updates for time and clocksources: 2024-01-21 11:14:40 -08:00
fs More bcachefs updates for 6.7-rc1 2024-01-21 14:01:12 -08:00
include header cleanup fixup for 6.8-rc1 2024-01-21 10:21:43 -08:00
init Driver core changes for 6.8-rc1 2024-01-18 09:48:40 -08:00
io_uring for-6.8/io_uring-2024-01-18 2024-01-18 18:17:57 -08:00
ipc shm: Slim down dependencies 2023-12-20 19:26:31 -05:00
kernel Updates for time and clocksources: 2024-01-21 11:14:40 -08:00
lib livepatch: Move tests from lib/livepatch to selftests/livepatch 2024-01-22 10:29:47 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add the copyleft-next-0.3.1 license 2022-11-08 15:44:01 +01:00
mm vfs-6.8.netfs 2024-01-19 09:10:23 -08:00
net Assorted CephFS fixes and cleanups with nothing standing out. 2024-01-19 09:58:55 -08:00
rust Rust changes for v6.8 2024-01-11 13:05:41 -08:00
samples RISC-V Patches for the 6.8 Merge Window, Part 4 2024-01-20 11:06:04 -08:00
scripts Coccinelle change for v6.8 2024-01-20 14:20:34 -08:00
security + Features 2024-01-19 10:53:55 -08:00
sound sound fixes for 6.8-rc1 2024-01-19 12:30:29 -08:00
tools selftests/resctrl: Read in less obvious order to defeat prefetch optimizations 2024-02-13 13:56:44 -07:00
usr Kbuild updates for v6.8 2024-01-18 17:57:07 -08:00
virt Generic: 2024-01-17 13:03:37 -08:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with v6.7-rc4's for_each macro list 2023-12-08 23:54:38 +01:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.editorconfig Add .editorconfig file for basic formatting 2023-12-28 16:22:47 +09:00
.get_maintainer.ignore get_maintainer: add Alan to .get_maintainer.ignore 2022-08-20 15:17:44 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore Add .editorconfig file for basic formatting 2023-12-28 16:22:47 +09:00
.mailmap Char/Misc and other Driver changes for 6.8-rc1 2024-01-17 16:47:17 -08:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS Including fixes from bpf and netfilter. 2024-01-18 17:33:50 -08:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS livepatch: Move tests from lib/livepatch to selftests/livepatch 2024-01-22 10:29:47 -07:00
Makefile Linux 6.8-rc1 2024-01-21 14:11:32 -08:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.