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powerpc: Use enhanced touch instructions in POWER7 copy_to_user/copy_from_user

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Version 2.06 of the POWER ISA introduced enhanced touch instructions,
allowing us to specify a number of attributes including the length of
a stream.

This patch adds a software stream for both loads and stores in the
POWER7 copy_tofrom_user loop. Since the setup is quite complicated
and we have to use an eieio to ensure correct ordering of the "GO"
command we only do this for copies above 4kB.

To quantify any performance improvements we need a working set
bigger than the caches so we operate on a 1GB file:

# dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/foo bs=1M count=1024

And we compare how fast we can read the file:

# dd if=/tmp/foo of=/dev/null bs=1M

before: 7.7 GB/s
after:  9.6 GB/s

A 25% improvement.

The worst case for this patch will be a completely L1 cache contained
copy of just over 4kB. We can test this with the copy_to_user
testcase we used to tune copy_tofrom_user originally:

http://ozlabs.org/~anton/junkcode/copy_to_user.c

# time ./copy_to_user2 -l 4224 -i 10000000

before: 6.807 s
after:  6.946 s

A 2% slowdown, which seems reasonable considering our data is unlikely
to be completely L1 contained.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Anton Blanchard 2012-05-28 22:14:32 +00:00 committed by Benjamin Herrenschmidt
parent e250d4bca6
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@ -298,6 +298,37 @@ err1; stb r0,0(r3)
ld r5,STACKFRAMESIZE+64(r1)
mtlr r0
/*
* We prefetch both the source and destination using enhanced touch
* instructions. We use a stream ID of 0 for the load side and
* 1 for the store side.
*/
clrrdi r6,r4,7
clrrdi r9,r3,7
ori r9,r9,1 /* stream=1 */
srdi r7,r5,7 /* length in cachelines, capped at 0x3FF */
cmpldi r7,0x3FF
ble 1f
li r7,0x3FF
1: lis r0,0x0E00 /* depth=7 */
sldi r7,r7,7
or r7,r7,r0
ori r10,r7,1 /* stream=1 */
lis r8,0x8000 /* GO=1 */
clrldi r8,r8,32
.machine push
.machine "power4"
dcbt r0,r6,0b01000
dcbt r0,r7,0b01010
dcbtst r0,r9,0b01000
dcbtst r0,r10,0b01010
eieio
dcbt r0,r8,0b01010 /* GO */
.machine pop
beq .Lunwind_stack_nonvmx_copy
/*