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-rw-r--r--sysdeps/x86/dl-cacheinfo.h11
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/sysdeps/x86/dl-cacheinfo.h b/sysdeps/x86/dl-cacheinfo.h
index 3aad90b923..61791362dc 100644
--- a/sysdeps/x86/dl-cacheinfo.h
+++ b/sysdeps/x86/dl-cacheinfo.h
@@ -872,12 +872,21 @@ dl_init_cacheinfo (struct cpu_features *cpu_features)
provides proper LRU hints so that the maximum thrashing
capped at 1/associativity. */
unsigned long int non_temporal_threshold = shared / 4;
+
+ /* If the computed non_temporal_threshold <= 3/4 * per-thread L3, we most
+ likely have incorrect/incomplete cache info in which case, default to
+ 3/4 * per-thread L3 to avoid regressions. */
+ unsigned long int non_temporal_threshold_lowbound
+ = shared_per_thread * 3 / 4;
+ if (non_temporal_threshold < non_temporal_threshold_lowbound)
+ non_temporal_threshold = non_temporal_threshold_lowbound;
+
/* If no ERMS, we use the per-thread L3 chunking. Normal cacheable stores run
a higher risk of actually thrashing the cache as they don't have a HW LRU
hint. As well, their performance in highly parallel situations is
noticeably worse. */
if (!CPU_FEATURE_USABLE_P (cpu_features, ERMS))
- non_temporal_threshold = shared_per_thread * 3 / 4;
+ non_temporal_threshold = non_temporal_threshold_lowbound;
/* SIZE_MAX >> 4 because memmove-vec-unaligned-erms right-shifts the value of
'x86_non_temporal_threshold' by `LOG_4X_MEMCPY_THRESH` (4) and it is best
if that operation cannot overflow. Minimum of 0x4040 (16448) because the