Base Compiler Invocation
C benchmarks
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- icx
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- CC, LD
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Invoke the Intel oneAPI DPC++ C compiler.
C++ benchmarks
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- icpx
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Invoke the Intel oneAPI DPC++ C++ compiler.
Fortran benchmarks
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- ifx
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Invoke the Intel oneAPI Fortran compiler.
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Invoke the Intel oneAPI DPC++ C compiler.
Invoke the Intel oneAPI DPC++ C++ compiler.
Invoke the Intel oneAPI Fortran compiler.
Invoke the Intel oneAPI DPC++ C compiler.
Invoke the Intel oneAPI DPC++ C++ compiler.
Invoke the Intel oneAPI Fortran compiler.
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This macro specifies that the target system uses the LP64 data model; specifically, that integers are 32 bits, while longs and pointers are 64 bits.
This macro indicates that the benchmark is being compiled on an AMD64-compatible system running the Linux operating system.
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This option is used to indicate that the host system's integers are 32-bits wide, and longs and pointers are 64-bits wide. Not all benchmarks recognize this macro, but the preferred practice for data model selection applies the flags to all benchmarks; this flag description is a placeholder for those benchmarks that do not recognize this macro.
This option is used to indicate that the host system's integers are 32-bits wide, and longs and pointers are 64-bits wide. Not all benchmarks recognize this macro, but the preferred practice for data model selection applies the flags to all benchmarks; this flag description is a placeholder for those benchmarks that do not recognize this macro.
This option is used to indicate that the host system's integers are 32-bits wide, and longs and pointers are 64-bits wide. Not all benchmarks recognize this macro, but the preferred practice for data model selection applies the flags to all benchmarks; this flag description is a placeholder for those benchmarks that do not recognize this macro.
This option is used to indicate that the host system's integers are 32-bits wide, and longs and pointers are 64-bits wide. Not all benchmarks recognize this macro, but the preferred practice for data model selection applies the flags to all benchmarks; this flag description is a placeholder for those benchmarks that do not recognize this macro.
This flag can be set for SPEC compilation for LINUX using default compiler.
This option is used to indicate that the host system's integers are 32-bits wide, and longs and pointers are 64-bits wide. Not all benchmarks recognize this macro, but the preferred practice for data model selection applies the flags to all benchmarks; this flag description is a placeholder for those benchmarks that do not recognize this macro.
This option is used to indicate that the host system's integers are 32-bits wide, and longs and pointers are 64-bits wide. Not all benchmarks recognize this macro, but the preferred practice for data model selection applies the flags to all benchmarks; this flag description is a placeholder for those benchmarks that do not recognize this macro.
This option is used to indicate that the host system's integers are 32-bits wide, and longs and pointers are 64-bits wide. Not all benchmarks recognize this macro, but the preferred practice for data model selection applies the flags to all benchmarks; this flag description is a placeholder for those benchmarks that do not recognize this macro.
This option is used to indicate that the host system's integers are 32-bits wide, and longs and pointers are 64-bits wide. Not all benchmarks recognize this macro, but the preferred practice for data model selection applies the flags to all benchmarks; this flag description is a placeholder for those benchmarks that do not recognize this macro.
This option is used to indicate that the host system's integers are 32-bits wide, and longs and pointers are 64-bits wide. Not all benchmarks recognize this macro, but the preferred practice for data model selection applies the flags to all benchmarks; this flag description is a placeholder for those benchmarks that do not recognize this macro.
This macro specifies that the target system uses the LP64 data model; specifically, that integers are 32 bits, while longs and pointers are 64 bits.
This macro indicates that the benchmark is being compiled on an AMD64-compatible system running the Linux operating system.
This macro determines which file system interface will be used. Common file i/o calls like stat() and readdir() return off_t data that may or may not fit within a 32bit data structure if this flag is not used. With _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64, types like off_t have a size of 64 bits. The truncation that happens without _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 has been observed to yield intermittent failures.
Ex: RHEL7 distributions format partitions using xfs. Runtime errors are observed on such systems because sometimes returned values will not fit into 32bit data types that are a mismatch for xfs.
See the gnuc feature test macros article for more information.
This option is used to indicate that the host system's integers are 32-bits wide, and longs and pointers are 64-bits wide. Not all benchmarks recognize this macro, but the preferred practice for data model selection applies the flags to all benchmarks; this flag description is a placeholder for those benchmarks that do not recognize this macro.
This option is used to indicate that the host system's integers are 32-bits wide, and longs and pointers are 64-bits wide. Not all benchmarks recognize this macro, but the preferred practice for data model selection applies the flags to all benchmarks; this flag description is a placeholder for those benchmarks that do not recognize this macro.
This option is used to indicate that the host system's integers are 32-bits wide, and longs and pointers are 64-bits wide. Not all benchmarks recognize this macro, but the preferred practice for data model selection applies the flags to all benchmarks; this flag description is a placeholder for those benchmarks that do not recognize this macro.
This flag can be set for SPEC compilation for LINUX using default compiler.
This option is used to indicate that the host system's integers are 32-bits wide, and longs and pointers are 64-bits wide. Not all benchmarks recognize this macro, but the preferred practice for data model selection applies the flags to all benchmarks; this flag description is a placeholder for those benchmarks that do not recognize this macro.
This option is used to indicate that the host system's integers are 32-bits wide, and longs and pointers are 64-bits wide. Not all benchmarks recognize this macro, but the preferred practice for data model selection applies the flags to all benchmarks; this flag description is a placeholder for those benchmarks that do not recognize this macro.
This option is used to indicate that the host system's integers are 32-bits wide, and longs and pointers are 64-bits wide. Not all benchmarks recognize this macro, but the preferred practice for data model selection applies the flags to all benchmarks; this flag description is a placeholder for those benchmarks that do not recognize this macro.
This option is used to indicate that the host system's integers are 32-bits wide, and longs and pointers are 64-bits wide. Not all benchmarks recognize this macro, but the preferred practice for data model selection applies the flags to all benchmarks; this flag description is a placeholder for those benchmarks that do not recognize this macro.
This option is used to indicate that the host system's integers are 32-bits wide, and longs and pointers are 64-bits wide. Not all benchmarks recognize this macro, but the preferred practice for data model selection applies the flags to all benchmarks; this flag description is a placeholder for those benchmarks that do not recognize this macro.
Supress compiler warnings.
Sets the language dialect to conform to the indicated C standard.
Compiles for a 64-bit (LP64) data model.
Enable SmartHeap and/or other library usage by forcing the linker to ignore multiple definitions if present
Code is optimized for Intel(R) processors with support for CORE-AVX512 instructions. The resulting code may contain unconditional use of features that are not supported on other processors. This option also enables new optimizations in addition to Intel processor-specific optimizations including advanced data layout and code restructuring optimizations to improve memory accesses for Intel processors.
Do not use this option if you are executing a program on a processor that is not an Intel processor. If you use this option on a non-compatible processor to compile the main program (in Fortran) or the function main() in C/C++, the program will display a fatal run-time error if they are executed on unsupported processors.
Enable O2 optimizations plus more aggressive optimizations, such as prefetching, scalar replacement, and loop and memory access transformations. Enable optimizations for maximum speed, such as:
On IA-32 and Intel EM64T processors, when O3 is used with options -ax or -x (Linux) or with options /Qax or /Qx (Windows), the compiler performs more aggressive data dependency analysis than for O2, which may result in longer compilation times. The O3 optimizations may not cause higher performance unless loop and memory access transformations take place. The optimizations may slow down code in some cases compared to O2 optimizations. The O3 option is recommended for applications that have loops that heavily use floating-point calculations and process large data sets.
Enable fast math mode. This option may yield faster code for programs that do not require the guarantees of exact implementation of IEEE or ISO rules/specifications for math functions.
Performs link time optimizations, which is also known as Interprocedural Optimizations.
Generate floating-point arithmetic for selected unit unit. Here use scalar floating-point instructions present in the SSE instruction set
Tells the compiler the maximum number of times to unroll loops. For example -funroll-loops0 would disable unrolling of loops.
Controls the level of memory layout transformations performed by the compiler. This option can improve cache reuse and cache locality.
Build time link path for libraries supplied with the compiler (for example, the qkmalloc library).
Linker toggle to specify qkmalloc linker library. See https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/docs/dpcpp-cpp-compiler/developer-guide-reference/2023-1/intel-s-memory-allocator-library.html for more information.
Supress compiler warnings.
Sets the language dialect to conform to the indicated C++ standard.
Compiles for a 64-bit (LP64) data model.
Enable SmartHeap and/or other library usage by forcing the linker to ignore multiple definitions if present
Code is optimized for Intel(R) processors with support for CORE-AVX512 instructions. The resulting code may contain unconditional use of features that are not supported on other processors. This option also enables new optimizations in addition to Intel processor-specific optimizations including advanced data layout and code restructuring optimizations to improve memory accesses for Intel processors.
Do not use this option if you are executing a program on a processor that is not an Intel processor. If you use this option on a non-compatible processor to compile the main program (in Fortran) or the function main() in C/C++, the program will display a fatal run-time error if they are executed on unsupported processors.
Enable O2 optimizations plus more aggressive optimizations, such as prefetching, scalar replacement, and loop and memory access transformations. Enable optimizations for maximum speed, such as:
On IA-32 and Intel EM64T processors, when O3 is used with options -ax or -x (Linux) or with options /Qax or /Qx (Windows), the compiler performs more aggressive data dependency analysis than for O2, which may result in longer compilation times. The O3 optimizations may not cause higher performance unless loop and memory access transformations take place. The optimizations may slow down code in some cases compared to O2 optimizations. The O3 option is recommended for applications that have loops that heavily use floating-point calculations and process large data sets.
Enable fast math mode. This option may yield faster code for programs that do not require the guarantees of exact implementation of IEEE or ISO rules/specifications for math functions.
Performs link time optimizations, which is also known as Interprocedural Optimizations.
Generate floating-point arithmetic for selected unit unit. Here use scalar floating-point instructions present in the SSE instruction set
Tells the compiler the maximum number of times to unroll loops. For example -funroll-loops0 would disable unrolling of loops.
Controls the level of memory layout transformations performed by the compiler. This option can improve cache reuse and cache locality.
Build time link path for libraries supplied with the compiler (for example, the qkmalloc library).
Linker toggle to specify qkmalloc linker library. See https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/docs/dpcpp-cpp-compiler/developer-guide-reference/2023-1/intel-s-memory-allocator-library.html for more information.
Supress compiler warnings.
Compiles for a 64-bit (LP64) data model.
Enable SmartHeap and/or other library usage by forcing the linker to ignore multiple definitions if present
Code is optimized for Intel(R) processors with support for CORE-AVX512 instructions. The resulting code may contain unconditional use of features that are not supported on other processors. This option also enables new optimizations in addition to Intel processor-specific optimizations including advanced data layout and code restructuring optimizations to improve memory accesses for Intel processors.
Do not use this option if you are executing a program on a processor that is not an Intel processor. If you use this option on a non-compatible processor to compile the main program (in Fortran) or the function main() in C/C++, the program will display a fatal run-time error if they are executed on unsupported processors.
Enable O2 optimizations plus more aggressive optimizations, such as prefetching, scalar replacement, and loop and memory access transformations. Enable optimizations for maximum speed, such as:
On IA-32 and Intel EM64T processors, when O3 is used with options -ax or -x (Linux) or with options /Qax or /Qx (Windows), the compiler performs more aggressive data dependency analysis than for O2, which may result in longer compilation times. The O3 optimizations may not cause higher performance unless loop and memory access transformations take place. The optimizations may slow down code in some cases compared to O2 optimizations. The O3 option is recommended for applications that have loops that heavily use floating-point calculations and process large data sets.
Enable fast math mode. This option may yield faster code for programs that do not require the guarantees of exact implementation of IEEE or ISO rules/specifications for math functions.
Performs link time optimizations, which is also known as Interprocedural Optimizations.
Generate floating-point arithmetic for selected unit unit. Here use scalar floating-point instructions present in the SSE instruction set
Tells the compiler the maximum number of times to unroll loops. For example -funroll-loops0 would disable unrolling of loops.
Controls the level of memory layout transformations performed by the compiler. This option can improve cache reuse and cache locality.
Option standard-realloc-lhs (the default), tells the compiler that when the left-hand side of an assignment is an allocatable object, it should be reallocated to the shape of the right-hand side of the assignment before the assignment occurs. This is the current Fortran Standard definition. This feature may cause extra overhead at run time. This option has the same effect as option assume realloc_lhs.
If you specify nostandard-realloc-lhs, the compiler uses the old Fortran 2003 rules when interpreting assignment statements. The left-hand side is assumed to be allocated with the correct shape to hold the right-hand side. If it is not, incorrect behavior will occur. This option has the same effect as option assume norealloc_lhs.
The align toggle changes how data elements are aligned. Variables and arrays are analyzed and memory layout can be altered. Specifying array32byte will look for opportunities to transform and reailgn arrays to 32byte boundaries.
Make all local variables AUTOMATIC. Same as -automatic
Build time link path for libraries supplied with the compiler (for example, the qkmalloc library).
Linker toggle to specify qkmalloc linker library. See https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/docs/dpcpp-cpp-compiler/developer-guide-reference/2023-1/intel-s-memory-allocator-library.html for more information.
Supress compiler warnings.
Sets the language dialect to conform to the indicated C standard.
Compiles for a 64-bit (LP64) data model.
Enable SmartHeap and/or other library usage by forcing the linker to ignore multiple definitions if present
Instrument program for profiling for the first phase of two-phase profile guided otimization. This instrumentation gathers information about a program's execution paths and data values but does not gather information from hardware performance counters. The profile instrumentation also gathers data for optimizations which are unique to profile-feedback optimization.
Instructs the compiler to produce a profile-optimized executable and merges available dynamic information.
Code is optimized for Intel(R) processors with support for AVX2 instructions. The resulting code may contain unconditional use of features that are not supported on other processors. This option also enables new optimizations in addition to Intel processor-specific optimizations including advanced data layout and code restructuring optimizations to improve memory accesses for Intel processors.
Do not use this option if you are executing a program on a processor that is not an Intel processor. If you use this option on a non-compatible processor to compile the main program (in Fortran) or the function main() in C/C++, the program will display a fatal run-time error if they are executed on unsupported processors.
Performs link time optimizations, which is also known as Interprocedural Optimizations.
Enable O3 optimizations plus more aggressive optimizations, such as -ffinite-math-only –no-prec-div
Code is optimized for Intel(R) processors with support for CORE-AVX512 instructions. The resulting code may contain unconditional use of features that are not supported on other processors. This option also enables new optimizations in addition to Intel processor-specific optimizations including advanced data layout and code restructuring optimizations to improve memory accesses for Intel processors.
Do not use this option if you are executing a program on a processor that is not an Intel processor. If you use this option on a non-compatible processor to compile the main program (in Fortran) or the function main() in C/C++, the program will display a fatal run-time error if they are executed on unsupported processors.
Enable fast math mode. This option may yield faster code for programs that do not require the guarantees of exact implementation of IEEE or ISO rules/specifications for math functions.
Generate floating-point arithmetic for selected unit unit. Here use scalar floating-point instructions present in the SSE instruction set
Tells the compiler the maximum number of times to unroll loops. For example -funroll-loops0 would disable unrolling of loops.
Controls the level of memory layout transformations performed by the compiler. This option can improve cache reuse and cache locality.
Tells the compiler to remove the assumption that source code follows c99 signed overflow rules.
Build time link path for libraries supplied with the compiler (for example, the qkmalloc library).
Linker toggle to specify qkmalloc linker library. See https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/docs/dpcpp-cpp-compiler/developer-guide-reference/2023-1/intel-s-memory-allocator-library.html for more information.
Compiles for a 32-bit (LP32) data model.
Build time link path for libraries supplied with the compiler (for example, the qkmalloc library).
Use specified C language standard.
Enable SmartHeap and/or other library usage by forcing the linker to ignore multiple definitions if present
Instrument program for profiling for the first phase of two-phase profile guided otimization. This instrumentation gathers information about a program's execution paths and data values but does not gather information from hardware performance counters. The profile instrumentation also gathers data for optimizations which are unique to profile-feedback optimization.
Instructs the compiler to produce a profile-optimized executable and merges available dynamic information.
Code is optimized for Intel(R) processors with support for AVX2 instructions. The resulting code may contain unconditional use of features that are not supported on other processors. This option also enables new optimizations in addition to Intel processor-specific optimizations including advanced data layout and code restructuring optimizations to improve memory accesses for Intel processors.
Do not use this option if you are executing a program on a processor that is not an Intel processor. If you use this option on a non-compatible processor to compile the main program (in Fortran) or the function main() in C/C++, the program will display a fatal run-time error if they are executed on unsupported processors.
Performs link time optimizations, which is also known as Interprocedural Optimizations.
Enable O3 optimizations plus more aggressive optimizations, such as -ffinite-math-only –no-prec-div
Code is optimized for Intel(R) processors with support for CORE-AVX512 instructions. The resulting code may contain unconditional use of features that are not supported on other processors. This option also enables new optimizations in addition to Intel processor-specific optimizations including advanced data layout and code restructuring optimizations to improve memory accesses for Intel processors.
Do not use this option if you are executing a program on a processor that is not an Intel processor. If you use this option on a non-compatible processor to compile the main program (in Fortran) or the function main() in C/C++, the program will display a fatal run-time error if they are executed on unsupported processors.
Enable fast math mode. This option may yield faster code for programs that do not require the guarantees of exact implementation of IEEE or ISO rules/specifications for math functions.
Generate floating-point arithmetic for selected unit unit. Here use scalar floating-point instructions present in the SSE instruction set
Tells the compiler the maximum number of times to unroll loops. For example -funroll-loops0 would disable unrolling of loops.
Controls the level of memory layout transformations performed by the compiler. This option can improve cache reuse and cache locality.
Specify build time link path for jemalloc 32bit built to support the CPU 2017 build. See jemalloc.net for more information.
Linker toggle to specify jemalloc linker library. See jemalloc.net for more information.
Supress compiler warnings.
Sets the language dialect to conform to the indicated C standard.
Compiles for a 64-bit (LP64) data model.
Enable SmartHeap and/or other library usage by forcing the linker to ignore multiple definitions if present
Code is optimized for Intel(R) processors with support for CORE-AVX512 instructions. The resulting code may contain unconditional use of features that are not supported on other processors. This option also enables new optimizations in addition to Intel processor-specific optimizations including advanced data layout and code restructuring optimizations to improve memory accesses for Intel processors.
Do not use this option if you are executing a program on a processor that is not an Intel processor. If you use this option on a non-compatible processor to compile the main program (in Fortran) or the function main() in C/C++, the program will display a fatal run-time error if they are executed on unsupported processors.
Enable O3 optimizations plus more aggressive optimizations, such as -ffinite-math-only –no-prec-div
Enable fast math mode. This option may yield faster code for programs that do not require the guarantees of exact implementation of IEEE or ISO rules/specifications for math functions.
Performs link time optimizations, which is also known as Interprocedural Optimizations.
Generate floating-point arithmetic for selected unit unit. Here use scalar floating-point instructions present in the SSE instruction set
Tells the compiler the maximum number of times to unroll loops. For example -funroll-loops0 would disable unrolling of loops.
Controls the level of memory layout transformations performed by the compiler. This option can improve cache reuse and cache locality.
This options tells the compiler to assume no aliasing in the program.
Build time link path for libraries supplied with the compiler (for example, the qkmalloc library).
Linker toggle to specify qkmalloc linker library. See https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/docs/dpcpp-cpp-compiler/developer-guide-reference/2023-1/intel-s-memory-allocator-library.html for more information.
This section contains descriptions of flags that were included implicitly by other flags, but which do not have a permanent home at SPEC.
Enable optimizations for speed. This is the generally recommended
optimization level. This option also enables:
- Inlining of intrinsics
- Intra-file interprocedural optimizations, which include:
- inlining
- constant propagation
- forward substitution
- routine attribute propagation
- variable address-taken analysis
- dead static function elimination
- removal of unreferenced variables
- The following capabilities for performance gain:
- constant propagation
- copy propagation
- dead-code elimination
- global register allocation
- global instruction scheduling and control speculation
- loop unrolling
- optimized code selection
- partial redundancy elimination
- strength reduction/induction variable simplification
- variable renaming
- exception handling optimizations
- tail recursions
- peephole optimizations
- structure assignment lowering and optimizations
- dead store elimination
Enable optimizations for speed and disables some optimizations that increase code size and affect speed.
To limit code size, this option:
The O1 option may improve performance for applications with very large code size, many branches, and execution time not dominated by code within loops.
-O1 sets the following options:Tells the compiler the maximum number of times to unroll loops. For example -funroll-loops0 would disable unrolling of loops.
-fno-builtin disables inline expansion for all intrinsic functions.
This option trades off floating-point precision for speed by removing the restriction to conform to the IEEE standard.
EBP is used as a general-purpose register in optimizations.
Places each function in its own COMDAT section.
Flushes denormal results to zero.
Enable O2 optimizations plus more aggressive optimizations, such as prefetching, scalar replacement, and loop and memory access transformations. Enable optimizations for maximum speed, such as:
On IA-32 and Intel EM64T processors, when O3 is used with options -ax or -x (Linux) or with options /Qax or /Qx (Windows), the compiler performs more aggressive data dependency analysis than for O2, which may result in longer compilation times. The O3 optimizations may not cause higher performance unless loop and memory access transformations take place. The optimizations may slow down code in some cases compared to O2 optimizations. The O3 option is recommended for applications that have loops that heavily use floating-point calculations and process large data sets.
Select "minimal" mode when installing the operating system,so that many services are not installed,this will reduce the consumption of resources by the operating system itself. And then only install necessary files of cpu test by yum.
Setting this environment variable to "performance" to enable cores to run at performance mode.
"scaling_governor" is a configuration file in Linux's "cpufreq" model. There are five mode in "scaling_governor" which are performance, powersave, userspace, ondemand, and conservative.
Performance: Lock the CPU's frequency at top speed without adjusting dynamically,which may require additional power;
Powersave: CPU will work at the minimum frequency;
Userspace: Provides the corresponding interface for the user-mode application program to adjust the frequency of CPU;
Ondemand: Quick dynamic adjustment of CPU frequency on demand, and will reach the maximum frequency;
Conservative: Frequency will be adjusted on demand.
We use "cpupower frequency-set -g performance" to set this environment variable to "performance".
A commandline interface for switching between different tuning profiles available in supported Linux distributions. The distribution provided profiles are located in /usr/lib/tuned and the user defined profiles in /etc/tuned. To set a profile, one can issue the command "tuned-adm profile (profile_name)". Below are details about some relevant profiles.
tuned-adm command line utility allows user to switch between user definable tuning profiles.[active, profile (name), off]
throughput-performance: For typical throughput performance tuning. Disables power saving mechanisms and enables sysctl settings that improve the throughput performance of disk and network I/O. CPU governor is set to performance and CPU energy performance bias is set to performance. Disk readahead values are increased;
latency-performance: For low latency performance tuning. Disables power saving mechanisms. CPU governor is set to performance and locked to the low C states. CPU energy performance bias to performance;
balanced: Default profile provides balanced power saving and performance. It enables CPU and disk plugins of tuned and makes the conservative governor is active and also sets the CPU energy performance bias to normal. It also enables power saving on audio and graphics card;
powersave: Maximal power saving for whole system. It sets the CPU governor to ondemand governor and energy performance bias to powersave. It also enable power saving on USB, SATA, audio and graphics card;
We use "tuned-adm profiel throughput-performance" to set this environment variable to "throughput-performance".
Transparent Hugepages can be used to increase the memory page size from 4 kilobytes to 2 megabytes. THP provide significant performance advantages on systems with highly contended resources and large memory workloads. If memory utilization is too high or memory is badly fragmented which prevents hugepages being allocated, the kernel will assign smaller 4k pages instead.
Examples:
echo always >/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled
echo madvise >/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled
echo never >/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled
Refer to the OS documentation for more details on THP.
This BIOS option allows for processor performance and power optmization. Available settings are:
Performance: High performance with less need for power saving.
Balanced Performance (Default Setting): Provides optimal performance efficiency.
Balanced Power: Provides optimal power efficiency.
Power: High power saving with less need for performance.
This BIOS option allows the enabling/disabling of a processor mechanism to prefetch data into the cache according to a pattern-recognition algorithm In some cases, setting this option to Disabled may improve performance.Users should only disable this option after performing application benchmarking to verify improved performance in their environment. Hardware Prefetching is typically accomplished by having a dedicated hardware mechanism in the processor that watches the stream of instructions or data being requested by the executing program, recognizes the next few elements that the program might need based on this stream and prefetches into the processor's cache. The default setting is Enable.
Enabling this option allows the processor cores to automatically increase its frequency and increasing performance if it is running below power, temperature.The default setting is Enable.
Enabling this option allows to use processor resources more efficiently, enabling multiple threads to run on each core and increases processor throughput, improving overall performance on threaded software.The default setting is Enable.
This BIOS setting allows the memory to be clocked to the Specific frequency. Default is "Auto"
Examples:
Auto: the memory will running at the highest supported frequency
4800: the memory will running at 4800Mhz
5200: the memory will running at 5200Mhz
5600: the memory will running at 5600Mhz
6000: the memory will running at 6000Mhz
6400: the memory will running at 6400Mhz
If virtualization is not used, this option should be set to "Disabled", this can result in slight performance liftings and energy savings.The default setting is Enable.
Enabling this option, which is the default, allows the processor to transition to its minimum frequency when entering the power state C1. If the switch is disabled the CPU stays at its maximum frequency in C1. Because of the increase of power consumption users should only enable this option after performing application benchmarking to verify improved performance in their environment.
This switch allows the configuration of the UPI link speed. Default is auto, which configures the optimal link speed automatically. Values can be: 16.0GT/s and 20.0GT/s and 24.0GT/s.
This BIOS option controls the interleaving between the Integrated Memory Controllers (IMCs), Memory could be interleaved across sockets, memory controllers, DDR channels, Ranks. Memory is interleaved for performance and thermal distribution.
If IMC Interleaving is set to 2-way, addresses will be interleaved between the two IMCs.
If IMC Interleaving is set to 1-way, there will be no interleaving.
If IMC Interleaving is set to auto, it depends on the SNC (Sub NUMA Clustering) setting, when SNC is set to enbaled, the IMC Interleaving will be 1-way interleave, SNC is set to disabled, the IMC Interleaving will be 2-way interleave.
If SNC is disabled, IMC Interleaving should be set to 2-way. If SNC is enabled, IMC Interleaving should be set to 1-way.
Sub NUMA Clustering (SNC) is a feature for breaking up the LLC into disjoint clusters based on address range, with each cluster bound to a subset of the memory controllers in the system. It improves average latency to the LLC. Default value is "disable"
SNC2: supports 2-way clustering. Utilizes LLC capacity efficiently and reduces latency due to core/IMC proximity. This may provide performance improvement on NUMA-aware operating systems.
SNC4: supports 4-way clustering. Utilizes LLC capacity more efficiently and reduces latency due to core/IMC proximity. This may provide performance improvement on NUMA-aware operating systems.
disable: supports 1-cluster and 2-way IMC interleave, the LLC is treated as one cluster.
In some Intel CPU caching schemes, mid-level cache (MLC) evictions are filled into the last level cache (LLC). If a line is evicted from the MLC to the LLC, the core can flag the evicted MLC lines as "dead". This means that the lines are not likely to be read again. This option allows dead lines to be dropped and never fill the LLC if the option is disabled.
Values for this BIOS option can be:
Disabled: Disabling this option can save space in the LLC by never filling MLC dead lines into the LLC.
Enabled: Opportunistically fill MLC dead lines in LLC, if space is available.
This option configures the processor last level cache (LLC) prefetch feature as a result of the non-inclusive cache architecture. The LLC prefetcher exists on top of other prefetchers that can prefetch data into the core data cache unit (DCU) and mid-level cache (MLC). In some cases, setting this option to disabled can improve performance. Typically, setting this option to enable provides better performance.
Values for this BIOS option can be:
Disabled: Disables the LLC prefetcher. The other core prefetchers are unaffected.
Enabled: Gives the core prefetcher the ability to prefetch data directly to the LLC.
The Xtended Prediction Table (XPT) prefetcher exists on top of other prefetchers that can prefetch data into the DCU, MLC, and LLC. The XPT prefetcher will issue a speculative DRAM read request in parallel to an LLC lookup. This prefetch bypasses the LLC, saving latency. In some cases, setting this option to disabled can improve performance. Typically, setting this option to enable provides better performance.
Values for this BIOS option can be:
Enabled: Allows a read request sent to the LLC to speculatively issue a copy of the read to DRAM.
Disabled: Read requests to the LLC are not allowed to send a speculative read to DRAM.
The Active Cores allows you to choose how many cores you want to enable for each CPU
Divide physical NUMA nodes into evenly sized virtual NUMA nodes in ACPI table. The default setting is Disabled.
Values for this BIOS option can be:
Enabled: Physical NUMA nodes will be devided into evenly sized virtual NUMA nodes.
Disabled: Physical NUMA nodes will not be devided into virtual NUMA nodes.
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