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The kernel provides driver support for using write combining IO memory through the __iowriteXX_copy() API which is commonly used as an optional optimization to generate 16/32/64 byte MemWr TLPs in a PCIe environment. iomap_copy.c provides a generic implementation as a simple 4/8 byte at a time copy loop that has worked well with past ARM64 CPUs, giving a high frequency of large TLPs being successfully formed. However modern ARM64 CPUs are quite sensitive to how the write combining CPU HW is operated and a compiler generated loop with intermixed load/store is not sufficient to frequently generate a large TLP. The CPUs would like to see the entire TLP generated by consecutive store instructions from registers. Compilers like gcc tend to intermix loads and stores and have poor code generation, in part, due to the ARM64 situation that writeq() does not codegen anything other than "[xN]". However even with that resolved compilers like clang still do not have good code generation. This means on modern ARM64 CPUs the rate at which __iowriteXX_copy() successfully generates large TLPs is very small (less than 1 in 10,000) tries), to the point that the use of WC is pointless. Implement __iowrite32/64_copy() specifically for ARM64 and use inline assembly to build consecutive blocks of STR instructions. Provide direct support for 64/32/16 large TLP generation in this manner. Optimize for common constant lengths so that the compiler can directly inline the store blocks. This brings the frequency of large TLP generation up to a high level that is comparable with older CPU generations. As the __iowriteXX_copy() family of APIs is intended for use with WC incorporate the DGH hint directly into the function. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/4-v3-1893cd8b9369+1925-mlx5_arm_wc_jgg@nvidia.com Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.