tree fbbe89782cc7b6baa3e838060f5fed41827c6f25
parent 9b2fa7f3e7799a335fd839906ab4d45b7d595dc4
author Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> 1445241861 +0200
committer Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> 1445281411 -0300

perf bench: Remove the prefaulting complication from 'perf bench mem mem*'

So 'perf bench mem memcpy/memset' has elaborate code to measure
memcpy()/memset() performance both with freshly allocated buffers (which
includes initial page fault overhead) and with preallocated buffers.

But the thing is, the resulting bandwidth results are mostly
meaningless, because page faults dominate so much of the cost.

It might make sense to measure cache cold vs. cache hot performance, but
the code does not do this.

So remove this complication, and always prefault the ranges before using
them.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1445241870-24854-6-git-send-email-mingo@kernel.org
[ Remove --no-prefault, --only-prefault from docs, noticed by David Ahern ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>