Re: [HACKERS][PATCH] Applying PMDK to WAL operations for persistentmemory

On Mon, Aug 06, 2018 at 06:00:54PM +0900, Yoshimi Ichiyanagi wrote:
> The libpmem's pmem_map_file() supported 2M/1G(the size of huge page)
> alignment, since it could reduce the number of page faults.
> In addition, libpmem's pmem_memcpy_nodrain() is the function
> to copy data using single instruction, multiple data(SIMD) instructions
> and NT store instructions(MOVNT).
> As a result, using these APIs is faster than using old mmap()/memcpy().
>
> Please see the PGCon2018 presentation[1] for the details.
>
> [1] https://www.pgcon.org/2018/schedule/attachments/507_PGCon2018_Introducing_PMDK_into_PostgreSQL.pdf

So you say that this represents a 3% gain based on the presentation?
That may be interesting to dig into it.  Could you provide fresher
performance numbers?  I am moving this patch to the next CF 2018-10 for
now, waiting for input from the author.
--
Michael