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When I test AEP memory, I found that flushing a cacheline repeatedly has a higher latency than flushing different cachelines. I want to know what caused this phenomenon. Is it wear leveling mechanism ?

qing_wang
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I used clwb instrusion, followed by sfence.

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Franklin_S_Intel
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Hello,

 

Would it be possible for you to provide the following:

 

- Detail information about how cacheline is flushed repeatedly (example)?

- Detail information about flushing different cachelines (example)?

- Show the latency differences between above two?

 

Output from following commands:

- dmidecode -t bios

- lscpu

- dmidecode | grep -A4 '^Base Board Information'

- uname -a

- ipmctl show -topology

- ipmctl show -dimm

- ipmctl show -firmware

 

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Hello,

 

This is a follow up to see if you were able to get the information requested before to move forward with your case. Let us know if you have any additional questions or concerns.

 

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Franklin_S_Intel
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Hello,

 

Please notice the following:

 

All DCPMM wear leveling is internal to DCPMM and under control of the DCPMM controller. There is nothing wear level related visible from the host.

 

Generally, if read/write data to & from PMEM, every time flushing the cache, it must wait until the cache is empty before resuming processing.

 

In short, flush if you absolutely have to, but be aware that it can be an expensive operation with respect to throughput.

 

The hardware has been optimized to protect the data in case of unexpected power failure with a feature called ADR

 

Refer to the App Direct transaction flow slide in https://newsroom.intel.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2019/08/Intel-Optane-HotChips-presentation.pdf

 

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Hello,

 

Please let us know if you have any additional questions or concerns and we will be happy to assist you.

 

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