[PATCH] Improve string benchtest timing

[Anton Youdkevitch]

Siddhesh,

On 22.5.2019 14:27 , Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
> On 22/05/19 4:41 PM, Wilco Dijkstra wrote:
>> Well if I force the copies to be mutually unaligned, there is only about 1% difference
>> for a few of the memcpy implementations compared to them being always aligned
>> The others show identical performance whether aligned or not. This is not too
>> surprising since the test is basically waiting for DRAM most of the time.
>
> That's a good point.  Is that the case for thunderx as well?  IIRC they
> perform particularly badly with misaligned code but I don't know if
> they're bad enough to be significant in the face of DRAM waits.
They were. The difference was up to 50% in some cases. But this is the
data for bench-memcpy. Reports for bench-memcpy-walk and
bench-memcpy-random do not have alignment info in them.

So, unaligned accesses can be much slower that aligned ones. Or, at least,
this is how the benchmarks measure them. We already know that the results
are not very stable, though.

P.S. To be precise I'm speaking about TX2 here.

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   Thanks,
   Anton