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Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2016 08:39:31 -0700
From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
To: Jann Horn <jann@...jh.net>
Cc: kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com, keescook@...omium.org,
Elena Reshetova <elena.reshetova@...el.com>,
Hans Liljestrand <ishkamiel@...il.com>, David Windsor <dwindsor@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 12/13] x86: x86 implementation for
HARDENED_ATOMIC
On 10/04/2016 05:41 AM, Jann Horn wrote:
> $ time ./atomic_user_test 2 1 1000000000 # multi-threaded, no protection
> real 0m9.550s
> user 0m18.988s
> sys 0m0.000s
> $ time ./atomic_user_test 2 2 1000000000 # multi-threaded, racy protection
> real 0m9.249s
> user 0m18.430s
> sys 0m0.004s
> $ time ./atomic_user_test 2 3 1000000000 # multi-threaded, cmpxchg protection
> real 1m47.331s
> user 3m34.390s
> sys 0m0.024s
Yikes, that does get a ton worse. But, I guess it's good to know we
have a few choices between performant and absolutely "correct".
Do you have any explanation for "racy protection" going faster than no
protection?
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