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Improve Atomics Performance on KNL/Broadwell where PREFETCHW/RFO is Available #898

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nmhamster opened this issue Jun 16, 2017 · 1 comment
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Initial research studies show there may be improved atomics performance on machines with RFO/PREFETCHW instructions available assuming atomics have low contention rates. Want to investigate adding this to Kokkos atomic operations to improve performance.

@nmhamster nmhamster added the Enhancement Improve existing capability; will potentially require voting label Jun 16, 2017
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crtrott commented Jun 22, 2017

Did someone do any performance analysis (i.e. when does it help when does it hurt?) In the end most of the use cases are probably low contention so I guess its a good change overall with little downside. But we should document this somewhere.

@hcedwar hcedwar added this to the 2017-June-end milestone Jun 26, 2017
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