I've ran the same test on an Intel system, to ensure we aren't introducing any regressions there. Besides basic smoke tests, the benchmarks from the description showed that the performance on Intel is not significantly affected by this patch.
halves@rotom:~$ head -n5 /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 63 model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2683 v3 @ 2.00GHz halves@rotom:~$ .cargo/bin/hyperfine -n focal-2.31-0ubuntu9.2 'lxc exec halves-focal ./test_memcpy64 32' -n focal-patched 'lxc exec halves-focal-patched ./test_memcpy64 32' Benchmark #1: focal-2.31-0ubuntu9.2 Time (mean ± σ): 2.662 s ± 0.058 s [User: 53.4 ms, System: 79.6 ms] Range (min … max): 2.559 s … 2.718 s 10 runs Benchmark #2: focal-patched Time (mean ± σ): 2.650 s ± 0.074 s [User: 61.5 ms, System: 76.1 ms] Range (min … max): 2.558 s … 2.759 s 10 runs Summary 'focal-patched' ran 1.00 ± 0.04 times faster than 'focal-2.31-0ubuntu9.2' halves@rotom:~$ .cargo/bin/hyperfine -n groovy-2.32-0ubuntu3 'lxc exec halves-groovy ./test_memcpy64 32' -n groovy-patched 'lxc exec halves-groovy-patched ./test_memcpy64 32' Benchmark #1: groovy-2.32-0ubuntu3 Time (mean ± σ): 2.643 s ± 0.044 s [User: 52.4 ms, System: 76.0 ms] Range (min … max): 2.575 s … 2.746 s 10 runs Benchmark #2: groovy-patched Time (mean ± σ): 2.626 s ± 0.036 s [User: 63.1 ms, System: 79.7 ms] Range (min … max): 2.590 s … 2.701 s 10 runs Summary 'groovy-patched' ran 1.01 ± 0.02 times faster than 'groovy-2.32-0ubuntu3' -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1928508 Title: Performance regression on memcpy() calls for AMD Zen To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/glibc/+bug/1928508/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs