Re: Linux 4.15-rc6

From: Willy Tarreau
Date: Thu Jan 04 2018 - 06:04:01 EST


On Thu, Jan 04, 2018 at 11:27:04AM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> > The post linked above has numbers with nopcid disabling pcid use, and
> > indeed, the difference is quite measurable.
>
> I'm going to re-run the tests on an Atom C2518 now, which doesn't have pcid,
> I don't even know if it's affected by the issue.

FWIW the performance loss on the Atom is less important (probably in
part because other parts are slower and bottlenecks are spread in all
the hardware). I'm observing "only" 11-14% loss on the same tests.

Willy