Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Jeff Hill <[email protected]> · Fri, 02 Sep 2011 17:08:08 -0000

During testing I do see an unusual performance anomaly. It seems that the gcc memory barrier intrinsic functions performance is maybe too good to be true on linux-x86 and linux-686 (see epicsAtomicSet performance below)

On RHEL linux-x86:

[hill@lcssvr5 test]$ O.linux-x86/epicsAtomicPerform
# epicsAtomicSet of "i" takes 0.000678 microseconds
# epicsAtomicSet of "j" takes 0.000425 microseconds
# epicsAtomicSet of "Pv" takes 0.000524 microseconds
# raw incr of "i" and a NOOP function call takes 0.002669 microseconds
# raw incr of "j" and a NOOP function call takes 0.002671 microseconds
# epicsAtomicIncr "i" takes 0.039754 microseconds
# epicsAtomicIncr "j" takes 0.039736 microseconds
# epicsAtomicCmpAndSwap of "i" takes 0.039187 microseconds
# epicsAtomicCmpAndSwap of "j" takes 0.039140 microseconds
# epicsAtomicCmpAndSwap of "Pv" takes 0.039124 microseconds
# retOwnership() takes 0.082530 microseconds
# passRefOwnership() takes 0.164766 microseconds

    Results
    =======
       Tests: 0

On RHEL linux-686:

[hill@lcssvr5 test]$ O.linux-x86/epicsAtomicPerform
# epicsAtomicSet of "i" takes 0.000768 microseconds
# epicsAtomicSet of "j" takes 0.000619 microseconds
# epicsAtomicSet of "Pv" takes 0.000597 microseconds
# raw incr of "i" and a NOOP function call takes 0.002676 microseconds
# raw incr of "j" and a NOOP function call takes 0.002668 microseconds
# epicsAtomicIncr "i" takes 0.008333 microseconds
# epicsAtomicIncr "j" takes 0.008418 microseconds
# epicsAtomicCmpAndSwap of "i" takes 0.008344 microseconds
# epicsAtomicCmpAndSwap of "j" takes 0.008332 microseconds
# epicsAtomicCmpAndSwap of "Pv" takes 0.008556 microseconds
# retOwnership() takes 0.016959 microseconds
# passRefOwnership() takes 0.033468 microseconds

    Results
    =======
       Tests: 0

On win32-x86-mingw (using gcc memory barriers / windows OS atomics):
C:\hill\epicsInBazaar\epicsR3.15-atomics\trunk\src\libCom\test>O.win32-x86-mingw\epicsAtomicPerform
# epicsAtomicSet of "i" takes 0.006438 microseconds
# epicsAtomicSet of "j" takes 0.006298 microseconds
# epicsAtomicSet of "Pv" takes 0.006294 microseconds
# raw incr of "i" and a NOOP function call takes 0.001606 microseconds
# raw incr of "j" and a NOOP function call takes 0.001604 microseconds
# epicsAtomicIncr "i" takes 0.008752 microseconds
# epicsAtomicIncr "j" takes 0.008751 microseconds
# epicsAtomicCmpAndSwap of "i" takes 0.008752 microseconds
# epicsAtomicCmpAndSwap of "j" takes 0.008756 microseconds
# epicsAtomicCmpAndSwap of "Pv" takes 0.008752 microseconds
# retOwnership() takes 0.017703 microseconds
# passRefOwnership() takes 0.035162 microseconds

    Results
    =======
       Tests: 0

On win32-686-mingw (using gcc memory barriers / gcc intrinsic atomics):
# epicsAtomicSet of "i" takes 0.006333 microseconds
# epicsAtomicSet of "j" takes 0.006294 microseconds
# epicsAtomicSet of "Pv" takes 0.006312 microseconds
# raw incr of "i" and a NOOP function call takes 0.001497 microseconds
# raw incr of "j" and a NOOP function call takes 0.001498 microseconds
# epicsAtomicIncr "i" takes 0.006265 microseconds
# epicsAtomicIncr "j" takes 0.006260 microseconds
# epicsAtomicCmpAndSwap of "i" takes 0.006575 microseconds
# epicsAtomicCmpAndSwap of "j" takes 0.006576 microseconds
# epicsAtomicCmpAndSwap of "Pv" takes 0.006582 microseconds
# retOwnership() takes 0.012689 microseconds
# passRefOwnership() takes 0.025254 microseconds

    Results
    =======
       Tests: 0
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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
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