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Date:      Fri, 9 Mar 2018 15:01:31 +0300
From:      Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw@zxy.spb.ru>
To:        Arshan Khanifar <arshan@freebsdfoundation.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Performance Benchmark for PTI (aka Meltdown mitigation)
Message-ID:  <20180309120131.GA38546@zxy.spb.ru>
In-Reply-To: <CADMyxqs93mbwxJB4C03LMfz5g3T45=n9NWBet_Wa22v4BO4LLA@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <CADMyxqs93mbwxJB4C03LMfz5g3T45=n9NWBet_Wa22v4BO4LLA@mail.gmail.com>

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On Thu, Mar 08, 2018 at 05:04:11PM -0500, Arshan Khanifar wrote:

> Executive Summary:
> - The PTI feature increases the system call times by more than 100%.
> - As a macrobenchmark, buildworld was used. Wall clock and user time
> showed no statistically-significant changes, while system time
> increased by less than 5%.
> 
> This email contains the results for benchmarking the performance of the
> PTI patch on FreeBSD 12-current. As a microbenchmark, timing of
> getppid(2) system call was used, and as a macrobenchmark, a number of
> buildworld tasks were timed.
> 

Can you also run pre-patched kernel?



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