OMP2012 Flag Description
Supermicro SuperServer SYS-221H-TN24R (INTEL XEON PLATINUM 8592+)
Copyright © 2012 Intel Corporation. All Rights Reserved.
Base Optimization Flags
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- -O3
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- OPTIMIZE
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Enables O2 optimizations plus more aggressive optimizations,
such as prefetching, scalar replacement, and loop and memory
access transformations. Enables optimizations for maximum speed,
such as:
- Loop unrolling, including instruction scheduling
- Code replication to eliminate branches
- Padding the size of certain power-of-two arrays to allow
more efficient cache use.
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. On IA-32
Windows platforms, -O3 sets the following:
/GF (/Qvc7 and above), /Gf (/Qvc6 and below), and /Ob2
- Includes:
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- -xCORE-AVX512
- OPTIMIZE
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Code is optimized for Intel(R) processors with support for 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.
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- -qopt-zmm-usage=high
- OPTIMIZE
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Defines a level of zmm registers usage.
-qopt-zmm-usage=keywoard Specifies the level of zmm register usage. You can specify one of the following:
low - Tells the compiler that the compiled program is unlikely to benefit from zmm register usage. It specifies that the compiler should avoid using zmm register unless it can prove the gain from their usage.
high - Tells the compiler to generate zmm code without restrictions
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- -O3
- OPTIMIZE
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Enables O2 optimizations plus more aggressive optimizations,
such as prefetching, scalar replacement, and loop and memory
access transformations. Enables optimizations for maximum speed,
such as:
- Loop unrolling, including instruction scheduling
- Code replication to eliminate branches
- Padding the size of certain power-of-two arrays to allow
more efficient cache use.
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. On IA-32
Windows platforms, -O3 sets the following:
/GF (/Qvc7 and above), /Gf (/Qvc6 and below), and /Ob2
- Includes:
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- -xCORE-AVX512
- OPTIMIZE
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Code is optimized for Intel(R) processors with support for 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.
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- -qopt-zmm-usage=high
- OPTIMIZE
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Defines a level of zmm registers usage.
-qopt-zmm-usage=keywoard Specifies the level of zmm register usage. You can specify one of the following:
low - Tells the compiler that the compiled program is unlikely to benefit from zmm register usage. It specifies that the compiler should avoid using zmm register unless it can prove the gain from their usage.
high - Tells the compiler to generate zmm code without restrictions
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- -O3
- OPTIMIZE
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Enables O2 optimizations plus more aggressive optimizations,
such as prefetching, scalar replacement, and loop and memory
access transformations. Enables optimizations for maximum speed,
such as:
- Loop unrolling, including instruction scheduling
- Code replication to eliminate branches
- Padding the size of certain power-of-two arrays to allow
more efficient cache use.
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. On IA-32
Windows platforms, -O3 sets the following:
/GF (/Qvc7 and above), /Gf (/Qvc6 and below), and /Ob2
- Includes:
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- -xCORE-AVX512
- OPTIMIZE
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Code is optimized for Intel(R) processors with support for 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.
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- -qopt-zmm-usage=high
- OPTIMIZE
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Defines a level of zmm registers usage.
-qopt-zmm-usage=keywoard Specifies the level of zmm register usage. You can specify one of the following:
low - Tells the compiler that the compiled program is unlikely to benefit from zmm register usage. It specifies that the compiler should avoid using zmm register unless it can prove the gain from their usage.
high - Tells the compiler to generate zmm code without restrictions
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- -align array64byte
- FOPTIMIZE
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specify how data items are aligned
keywords: all (same as -align), none (same as -noalign),
[no]commons, [no]dcommons,
[no]qcommons, [no]zcommons,
rec1byte, rec2byte, rec4byte,
rec8byte, rec16byte, rec32byte,
array8byte, array16byte, array32byte,
array64byte, array128byte, array256byte,
[no]records, [no]sequence
Implicitly Included Flags
This section contains descriptions of flags that were included implicitly
by other flags, but which do not have a permanent home at SPEC.
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- -Ob_n
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Specifies the level of inline function expansion.
Ob0 - Disables inlining of user-defined functions. Note that
statement functions are always inlined.
Ob1 - Enables inlining when an inline keyword or an inline
attribute is specified. Also enables inlining according
to the C++ language.
Ob2 - Enables inlining of any function at the compiler's
discretion.
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- -O2
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Enables 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
On IA-32 Windows platforms, -O2 sets the following:
/Og, /Oi-, /Os, /Oy, /Ob2, /GF (/Qvc7 and above), /Gf (/Qvc6
and below), /Gs, and /Gy.
- Includes:
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- -O1
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Enables optimizations for speed and disables some optimizations that
increase code size and affect speed.
To limit code size, this option:
- Enables global optimization; this includes data-flow analysis,code motion, strength reduction and test replacement, split-lifetime analysis, and instruction scheduling.
- Disables intrinsic recognition and intrinsics inlining.
The O1 option may improve performance for applications with very large code size, many branches, and execution time not dominated by code within loops.
On IA-32 Windows platforms, -O1 sets the following:
/Qunroll0, /Oi-, /Op-, /Oy, /Gy, /Os, /GF (/Qvc7 and above),
/Gf (/Qvc6 and below), /Ob2, and /Og
- Includes:
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This result has been formatted using multiple flags files.
The "sw environment" from each of them appears next.
Sw environment from Supermicro-ic2022.linux64-oneAPI
SPEC OMP2012 Flag Description for the Intel(R) C/C++ Compiler
for IA32 and Intel 64 applications and Intel(R) Fortran Compiler for IA32 and Intel 64
applications
KMP_AFFINITY
The KMP_AFFINITY environment variable uses the following general syntax:
Syntax
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KMP_AFFINITY=[<modifier>,...]<type>[,<permute>][,<offset>]
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For example, to list a machine topology map, specify KMP_AFFINITY=verbose,none to use a modifier of verbose and a type of none.
The following table describes the supported specific arguments.
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Default
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Description
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modifier
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noverbose
respect
granularity=core
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Optional. String consisting of keyword and specifier.
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type
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none
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Required string. Indicates the thread affinity to use.
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compact
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disabled
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explicit
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none
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scatter
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logical (deprecated; instead use compact, but omit any permute value)
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physical (deprecated; instead use scatter, possibly with an offset value)
The logical and physical types are deprecated but supported for backward compatibility.
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permute
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0
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Optional. Positive integer value. Not valid with type values of explicit, none, or disabled. |
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offset
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0
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Optional. Positive integer value. Not valid with type values of explicit, none, or disabled.
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Affinity Types
Type is the only required argument.
type = none (default)
Does not bind OpenMP threads to particular thread contexts; however, if the operating system supports affinity, the compiler still uses the OpenMP thread affinity interface to determine machine topology. Specify KMP_AFFINITY=verbose,none to list a machine topology map.
type = compact
Specifying compact assigns the OpenMP thread <n>+1 to a free thread context as close as possible to the thread context where the <n> OpenMP thread was placed. For example, in a topology map, the nearer a node is to the root, the more significance the node has when sorting the threads.
type = disabled
Specifying disabled completely disables the thread affinity interfaces. This forces the OpenMP run-time library to behave as if the affinity interface was not supported by the operating system. This includes the low-level API interfaces such as kmp_set_affinity and kmp_get_affinity, which have no effect and will return a nonzero error code.
type = explicit
Specifying explicit assigns OpenMP threads to a list of OS proc IDs that have been explicitly specified by using the proclist= modifier, which is required for this affinity type.
type = scatter
Specifying scatter distributes the threads as evenly as possible across the entire system. scatter is the opposite of compact; so the leaves of the node are most significant when sorting through the machine topology map.
Deprecated Types: logical and physical
Types logical and physical are deprecated and may become unsupported in a future release. Both are supported for backward compatibility.
For logical and physical affinity types, a single trailing integer is interpreted as an offset specifier instead of a permute specifier. In contrast, with compact and scatter types, a single trailing integer is interpreted as a permute specifier.
Specifying logical assigns OpenMP threads to consecutive logical processors, which are also called hardware thread contexts. The type is equivalent to compact, except that the permute specifier is not allowed. Thus, KMP_AFFINITY=logical,n is equivalent to KMP_AFFINITY=compact,0,n (this equivalence is true regardless of the whether or not a granularity=fine modifier is present).
Permute and offset combinations
For both compact and scatter, permute and offset are allowed; however, if you specify only one integer, the compiler interprets the value as a permute specifier. Both permute and offset default to 0.
The permute specifier controls which levels are most significant when sorting the machine topology map. A value for permute forces the mappings to make the specified number of most significant levels of the sort the least significant, and it inverts the order of significance. The root node of the tree is not considered a separate level for the sort operations.
The offset specifier indicates the starting position for thread assignment.
Modifier Values for Affinity Types
Modifiers are optional arguments that precede type. If you do not specify a modifier, the noverbose, respect, and granularity=core modifiers are used automatically.
Modifiers are interpreted in order from left to right, and can negate each other. For example, specifying KMP_AFFINITY=verbose,noverbose,scatter is therefore equivalent to setting KMP_AFFINITY=noverbose,scatter, or just KMP_AFFINITY=scatter.
modifier = noverbose (default)
Does not print verbose messages.
modifier = verbose
Prints messages concerning the supported affinity. The messages include information about the number of packages, number of cores in each package, number of thread contexts for each core, and OpenMP thread bindings to physical thread contexts.
Information about binding OpenMP threads to physical thread contexts is indirectly shown in the form of the mappings between hardware thread contexts and the operating system (OS) processor (proc) IDs. The affinity mask for each OpenMP thread is printed as a set of OS processor IDs.
KMP_LIBRARY
KMP_LIBRARY = { throughput | turnaround | serial },
Selects the OpenMP run-time library execution mode.
The options for the variable value are throughput, turnaround, and serial.
Execution modes
The compiler with OpenMP enables you to run an application under different
execution modes that can be specified at run time. The libraries support
the serial, turnaround, and throughput modes.
Serial
The serial mode forces parallel applications to run on a single processor.
Turnaround
In a dedicated (batch or single user) parallel environment where all
processors are exclusively allocated to the program for its entire run,
it is most important to effectively utilize all of the processors all
of the time. The turnaround mode is designed to keep active all of the
processors involved in the parallel computation in order to minimize the
execution time of a single job. In this mode, the worker threads actively
wait for more parallel work, without yielding to other threads.
Avoid over-allocating system resources. This
occurs if either too many threads have been specified, or if too few processors
are available at run time. If system resources are over-allocated, this
mode will cause poor performance. The throughput mode should be used instead
if this occurs.
Throughput
In a multi-user environment where the load on the parallel machine is
not constant or where the job stream is not predictable, it may be better
to design and tune for throughput. This minimizes the total time to run
multiple jobs simultaneously. In this mode, the worker threads will yield
to other threads while waiting for more parallel work.
The throughput mode is designed to make the program aware of its environment
(that is, the system load) and to adjust its resource usage to produce
efficient execution in a dynamic environment. This mode is the default.
KMP_BLOCKTIME
KMP_BLOCKTIME = value.
Sets the time, in milliseconds, that a thread should wait, after completing
the execution of a parallel region, before sleeping.Use the optional
character suffixes: s (seconds), m (minutes), h (hours), or d (days)
to specify the units.Specify infinite for an unlimited wait time.
KMP_STACKSIZE
KMP_STACKSIZE = value.
Sets the number of bytes to allocate for each OpenMP* thread
to use as the private stack for the thread.
Recommended size is 16m.
Use the optional suffixes: b (bytes), k (kilobytes), m (megabytes),
g (gigabytes), or t (terabytes) to specify the units.
This variable does not affect the native operating system threads
created by the user program nor the thread executing the sequential
part of an OpenMP* program or parallel programs created using -parallel.
OMP_NUM_THREADS
Sets the maximum number of threads to use for OpenMP* parallel regions if no
other value is specified in the application. This environment variable
applies to both -openmp and -parallel.
Example syntax on a Linux system with 8 cores:
export OMP_NUM_THREADS=8
OMP_DYNAMIC
OMP_DYNAMIC={ 1 | 0 }
Enables (1, true) or disables (0,false) the dynamic adjustment of the number of threads.
OMP_SCHEDULE
OMP_SCHEDULE={ type,[chunk size]}
Controls the scheduling of the for-loop work-sharing construct.
type can be either of static,dynamic,guided,runtime
chunk size should be positive integer
OMP_NESTED
OMP_NESTED={ 1 | 0 }
Enables creation of new teams in case of nested parallel regions (1,true) or serializes (0,false) all nested parallel regions. Default is 0.
Sw environment from Supermicro-Platform-Settings-V1.2-SPR-revF
SPEC CPU2017 Platform Settings for Supermicro Systems
Operating System Tuning settings
One or more of the following settings may have been applied to the testbed. If so, the "Platform Notes" section of the report will say so; and you can read below to find out more about what these settings mean.
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=<directories> (linker)
LD_LIBRARY_PATH controls the search order for both the compile-time and run-time linkers. Usually, it can be defaulted; but testers may sometimes choose to explicitly set it (as documented in the notes in the submission), in order to ensure that the correct versions of libraries are picked up.
STACKSIZE=<n>
Set the size of the stack (temporary storage area) for each slave thread of a multithreaded program.
ulimit -s <n>
Sets the stack size to n kbytes, or "unlimited" to allow the stack size to grow without limit.
- Transparent Hugepages (THP)
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THP is an abstraction layer that automates most aspects of creating, managing,
and using huge pages. It is designed to hide much of the complexity in using
huge pages from system administrators and developers. Huge pages
increase the memory page size from 4 kilobytes to 2 megabytes. This provides
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. Most recent Linux OS releases have THP enabled by default.
THP usage is controlled by the sysfs setting /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled.
Possible values:
- never: entirely disable THP usage.
- madvise: enable THP usage only inside regions marked MADV_HUGEPAGE using madvise(3).
- always: enable THP usage system-wide. This is the default.
THP creation is controlled by the sysfs setting /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/defrag.
Possible values:
- never: if no THP are available to satisfy a request, do not attempt to make any.
- defer: an allocation requesting THP when none are available get normal pages while requesting THP creation in the background.
- defer+madvise: acts like "always", but only for allocations in regions marked MADV_HUGEPAGE using madvise(3); for all other regions it's like "defer".
- madvise: acts like "always", but only for allocations in regions marked MADV_HUGEPAGE using madvise(3). This is the default.
- always: an allocation requesting THP when none are available will stall until some are made.
An application that "always" requests THP often can benefit from waiting for an allocation until those huge pages can be assembled.
For more information see the Linux transparent hugepage documentation.
- CPUFreq scaling governor:
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Governors are power schemes for the CPU. It is in-kernel pre-configured power schemes for the CPU and allows you to change the clock speed of the CPUs on the fly. On Linux systems can set the govenor for all CPUs through the cpupower utility with the following command:
- "cpupower -c all frequency-set -g governor"
Below are governors in the Linux kernel:
- performance: Run the CPU at the maximum frequency.
- powersave: Run the CPU at the minimum frequency.
- userspace: Run the CPU at user specified frequencies.
- ondemand: Scales the frequency dynamically according to current load. Jumps to the highest frequency and then possibly back off as the idle time increases.
- conservative: Scales the frequency dynamically according to current load. Scales the frequency more gradually than ondemand.
- schedutil: Scheduler-driven CPU frequency selection.
- tuned-adm:
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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:
- 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.
- drop_caches
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Writing this will cause kernel to drop clean caches, as well as reclaimable slab objects like dentries and inodes. Once dropped, their memory becomes free.
Set through "sysctl -w vm.drop_caches=3" to free slab objects and pagecache.
- Hyper-Threading [ALL]: (Default="Enable")
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Enabled for Windows and Linux (OS optimized for Hyper-Threading Technology) and Disabled for other OS (OS not optimized for Hyper-Threading Technology). When Disabled only one thread per enabled core is enabled.
- Intel Virtualization Technology: (Default = "Enable")
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When enabled, a VMM can utilize the additional hardware capabilities provided by Vanderpool Technology.
- LLC Prefetch: (Default = "Disable")
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The LLC prefetcher is an additional prefetch mechanism on top of the existing prefetchers that prefetch data into the core Data Cache Unit (DCU) and Mid-Level Cache (MLC). Enabling LLC prefetch gives the core prefetcher the ability to prefetch data directly into the LLC without necessarily filling into the MLC.
- DCU IP Prefetcher: (Default = "Enable")
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This L1-cache prefetcher looks for sequential load history (based on the Instruction Pointer of previous loads) and attempts on this basis to determine the next data to be expected and, if necessary, to prefetch this data from the L2 cache or the main memory into the L1 cache.
- DCU Streamer Prefetcher: (Default = "Enable")
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This prefetcher is a L1 data cache prefetcher, which detects multiple loads from the same cache line done within a time limit, in order to then prefetch the next line from the L2 cache or the main memory into the L1 cache based on the assumption that the next cache line will also be needed.
- Power Technology: (Default = "Custom")
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The options are Disable, Energy Efficient, and Custom.
Switch processor power management features. If value "Custom" is set, Customer can define the values of all power management setup items.
Select Energy Efficient to support power-saving mode. Select Custom to customize system power settings. Select Disabled to disable power-saving settings.
- Power Performance Tuning: (Default = "OS Controls EPB")
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Allows the OS or BIOS to control the Energy Performance Bias.
Available options are:
- OS Controls EPB: The Energy Performance Bias setting controls by OS.
- BIOS Controls EPB: The Energy Performance Bias setting controls by ENERGY_PERF_BIAS_CFG mode item in BIOS.
- ENERGY_PERF_BIAS_CFG mode (Energy Performance Bias Setting): (Default = "Balanced Performance")
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This BIOS option allows for processor performance and power optmization.
Available options are:
- Extreme Performance: This mode will raise system performance to its highest potential. With Extreme Performance enabled, power consumption will increase as the processor frequency is maximized. In other words, system performance is gained at the cost of system power efficiency, depending on the workload.
- Maximum Performance: Get more performance with more power consumption than performance mode.
- 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.
- CPU C6 Report: (Default = "Auto")
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Controls the BIOS to report the CPU C6 State (ACPI C3) to the operating system. During the CPU C6 State, the power to all cache is turned off.
Available options are:
- Enable: Enable BIOS to report the CPU C6 State (ACPI C3) to the operating system.
- Disable: Disable BIOS to report the CPU C6 State (ACPI C3) to the operating system.
- Auto: BIOS automatically decides to report the CPU C6 State (ACPI C3) to the operating system or not depends on Power Technology setting.
- Enhanced Halt State (C1E): (Default = "Enable")
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Power saving feature where, when enabled, idle processor cores will halt.
- Hardware P-states: (Default = "Disable")
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The Hardware P-State setting allows the user to select between OS and hardware-controlled P-states. Selecting Native Mode allows the OS to choose a P-state. Selecting Out of Band Mode allows the hardware to autonomously choose a P-state without OS guidance. Selecting Native Mode with No Legacy Support functions as Native Mode with no support for older hardware.
- SNC: (Default = "Auto")
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Sub-NUMA Clusters (SNC) is a feature that provides similar localization benefits as Cluster-On-Die (COD), without some of COD's downsides. SNC breaks up the LLC into disjoint clusters based on address range, with each cluster bound to a subset of the memory controllers in the system. SNC improves average latency to the LLC.
- Auto: Auto decides based on silicon prefer value.
- Disable: Disable SNC feature and there is one NUMA domain per socket.
- Enable SNC2 (2-clusters): SNC2 divides CPU into two clusters, there are two NUMA domains per socket.
- Enable SNC4 (4-clusters): SNC4 divides CPU into four clusters, there are four NUMA domains per socket.
- KTI Prefetch: (Default = "Auto")
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When KTI Prefetch is set to Enable, the Ultra-Path Interconnect (UPI) Prefetcher will allow the memory read from a remote socket to start earlier, in an effort to reduce latency. Available options are "Auto", "Disable" and "Enable".
- Stale AtoS: (Default = "Auto")
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The in-memory directory has three states: I, A, and S. I (invalid) state means the data is clean and does not exist in any other socket's cache. The A (snoopAll) state means the data may exist in another socket in exclusive or modified state. S (Shared) state means the data is clean and may be shared across one or more socket's caches.
When doing a read to memory, if the directory line is in the A state we must snoop all the other sockets because another socket may have the line in modified state. If this is the case, the snoop will return the modified data. However, it may be the case that a line is read in A state and all the snoops come back a miss. This can happen if another socket read the line earlier and then silently dropped it from its cache without modifying it.
Available options are:
- Enable: In the situation where a line in A state returns only snoop misses, the line will transition to S state. That way, subsequent reads to the line will encounter it in S state and not have to snoop, saving latency and snoop bandwidth. Stale AtoS may be beneficial in a workload where there are many cross-socket reads.
- Disable: Disabling this option allows the feature to process memory directories as described above.
- Auto: This will enable Stale AtoS when AEP DIMM installed on system and disable Stale AtoS if no AEP DIMM installed.
- LLC Dead Line Alloc: (Default = "Enable")
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In the Skylake-SP non-inclusive cache scheme, MLC evictions are filled into the LLC. When lines are evicted from the MLC, the core can flag them as "dead" (i.e., not likely to be read again). The LLC has the option to drop dead lines and not fill them in the LLC. If the LLC Dead Line Alloc feature is disabled, dead lines will always be dropped and will never fill into the LLC. This can help save space in the LLC and prevent the LLC from evicting useful data. However, if the LLC Dead Line Alloc feature is enabled, the LLC can opportunistically fill dead lines into the LLC if there is free space available. Available options are "Auto", "Enable" and "Disable".
- Enforce DDR Memory Frequency POR: (Default = "POR")
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Set to POR enforce Plan Of Record restrictions for DDR5 frequency and voltage programming. Memory speeds will be capped at Intel guidelines. Disabling allows user selection of additional supported memory speeds. Available options are "POR" and "Disable".
- Memory Frequency: (Default = "Auto")
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Set the maximum memory frequency for onboard memory modules. Available options are "Auto", "3200", "3600", "4000", "4400", "4800", "5200", "5600".
- ADDDC Sparing: (Default = "Enabled")
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Adaptive Double Device Data Correction (ADDDC) Sparing detects the predetermined threshold for correctable errors, copying the contents of the failing DIMM to spare memory. The failing DIMM or memory rank will then be disabled.
Available options are:
- Enabled: Enable the ADDDC Sparing feature.
- Disabled: Disable the ADDDC Sparing feature.
- Patrol Scrub: (Default = "Enable at End of POST")
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Enable or disable the ability to proactively search the system memory, repairing correctable errors.
- Turbo Mode: (Default = "Enable")
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Select Enable to allow the CPU to operate at the manufacturer-defined turbo speed by increasing CPU clock frequency. This feature is available when it is supported by the processors used in the system. The options are Disable and Enable.
- NUMA: (Default = "Enabled")
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Use this feature to enable Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) to enhance system performance. The options are Disabled and Enabled.
- UMA-Based Clustering: (Default = "Quadrant (4-clusters")
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When this feature is set to Hemisphere, Uniform Memory Access (UMA)-based clustering will support 2-cluster configuration for system performance enhancement. The options are Disabled (All2All), Hemisphere (2-clusters), and Quadrant (4-clusters).
For questions about the meanings of these flags, please contact the tester.
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