fastpath performance test

Hi guys, I have downloaded the lastest seL4 repo and built the seL4 kernel. And I reuse the code in sel4test/projects/sel4test/apps/sel4test-tests/src/tests/ipc.c. To test the fast, I made minor modifications: first, set caller and callee to the same priority; second, caller uses seL4_Call while callee uses seL4_ReplyRecv. However, the fastpath takes more than 2000 cycles (a round trip). Build: use the lastest provided docker and ../init-build.sh - DPLATFORM=x86_64 -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release Both hardware and Qemu show similar results. (4.0GHz skylake CPU) BTW. The manifest is the same as https://sel4.systems/About/Performance/home.pml (i.e., bf13e9f673484825a60f9950cf688ff33ac841ad). Any advices about the issue? Best, Jinyu Gu, Institute of Parallel and Distributed Systems (IPADS), School of Software, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Hi Jinyu, Pleae disable the KernelSkimWindow option (Meltdown fix) and try again? ccmake . press t so you can see advanced options set the "KernelSkimWindow" option to "OFF" Regards, Yanyan On Sun, 2020-01-05 at 20:17 +0800, Dd Nirvana wrote:
Hi guys,
I have downloaded the lastest seL4 repo and built the seL4 kernel. And I reuse the code in sel4test/projects/sel4test/apps/sel4test- tests/src/tests/ipc.c. To test the fast, I made minor modifications: first, set caller and callee to the same priority; second, caller uses seL4_Call while callee uses seL4_ReplyRecv.
However, the fastpath takes more than 2000 cycles (a round trip).
Build: use the lastest provided docker and ../init-build.sh - DPLATFORM=x86_64 -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release Both hardware and Qemu show similar results. (4.0GHz skylake CPU)
BTW. The manifest is the same as https://sel4.systems/About/Performance/home.pml (i.e., bf13e9f673484825a60f9950cf688ff33ac841ad).
Any advices about the issue?
Best, Jinyu Gu, Institute of Parallel and Distributed Systems (IPADS), School of Software, Shanghai Jiao Tong University _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@sel4.systems https://sel4.systems/lists/listinfo/devel
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