From: Eric Dumazet > Sent: 26 May 2015 16:30 > > > Yes, interesting, a benchmark that manages to run a lot of code 'cold > > cache'. > > We have binaries here at Google with 400 or 500 MBytes of text. > > Not benchmark, super real workloads you know.
Indeed, and a lot of the code is likely to be running 'cold cache'. I was alluding to the problem where people will benchmark a small function by running in 1000s of times in a tight loop with exactly the same data. Not only is it 'hot cache' but any dynamic branch prediction is 'trained' to the specific data. David