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[PATCH] x86: cache pollution aware __copy_from_user_ll()

Use the x86 cache-bypassing copy instructions for copy_from_user().

Some performance data are

Total of GLOBAL_POWER_EVENTS (CPU cycle samples)

2.6.12.4.orig    1921587
2.6.12.4.nt      1599424
1599424/1921587=83.23% (16.77% reduction)

BSQ_CACHE_REFERENCE (L3 cache miss)
2.6.12.4.orig      57427
2.6.12.4.nt        20858
20858/57427=36.32% (63.7% reduction)

L3 cache miss reduction of __copy_from_user_ll
samples  %
37408    65.1412  vmlinux                  __copy_from_user_ll
23        0.1103  vmlinux                  __copy_user_zeroing_intel_nocache
23/37408=0.061% (99.94% reduction)

Top 5 of 2.6.12.4.nt
Counted GLOBAL_POWER_EVENTS events (time during which processor is not stopped) with a unit mask of 0x01 (mandatory) count 100000
samples  %        app name                 symbol name
128392    8.0274  vmlinux                  __copy_user_zeroing_intel_nocache
64206     4.0143  vmlinux                  journal_add_journal_head
59746     3.7355  vmlinux                  do_get_write_access
47674     2.9807  vmlinux                  journal_put_journal_head
46021     2.8774  vmlinux                  journal_dirty_metadata
pattern9-0-cpu4-0-09011728/summary.out

Counted BSQ_CACHE_REFERENCE events (cache references seen by the bus unit) with a unit mask of 0x3f (multiple flags) count 3000
samples  %        app name                 symbol name
69755     4.2861  vmlinux                  __copy_user_zeroing_intel_nocache
55685     3.4215  vmlinux                  journal_add_journal_head
52371     3.2179  vmlinux                  __find_get_block
45504     2.7960  vmlinux                  journal_put_journal_head
36005     2.2123  vmlinux                  journal_stop
pattern9-0-cpu4-0-09011744/summary.out

Counted BSQ_CACHE_REFERENCE events (cache references seen by the bus unit) with a unit mask of 0x200 (read 3rd level cache miss) count 3000
samples  %        app name                 symbol name
1147      5.4994  vmlinux                  journal_add_journal_head
881       4.2240  vmlinux                  journal_dirty_data
872       4.1809  vmlinux                  blk_rq_map_sg
734       3.5192  vmlinux                  journal_commit_transaction
617       2.9582  vmlinux                  radix_tree_delete
pattern9-0-cpu4-0-09011731/summary.out

iozone results are

original 2.6.12.4 CPU time = 207.768 sec
cache aware       CPU time = 184.783 sec
(three times run)
184.783/207.768=88.94% (11.06% reduction)

original:
pattern9-0-cpu4-0-08191720/iozone.out:  CPU Utilization: Wall time   45.997    CPU time   64.527    CPU utilization 140.28 %
pattern9-0-cpu4-0-08191741/iozone.out:  CPU Utilization: Wall time   46.878    CPU time   71.933    CPU utilization 153.45 %
pattern9-0-cpu4-0-08191743/iozone.out:  CPU Utilization: Wall time   45.152    CPU time   71.308    CPU utilization 157.93 %

cache awre:
pattern9-0-cpu4-0-09011728/iozone.out:  CPU Utilization: Wall time   44.842    CPU time   62.465    CPU utilization 139.30 %
pattern9-0-cpu4-0-09011731/iozone.out:  CPU Utilization: Wall time   44.718    CPU time   59.273    CPU utilization 132.55 %
pattern9-0-cpu4-0-09011744/iozone.out:  CPU Utilization: Wall time   44.367    CPU time   63.045    CPU utilization 142.10 %

Signed-off-by: Hiro Yoshioka <hyoshiok@miraclelinux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
wifi-calibration
Hiro Yoshioka 2006-06-23 02:04:16 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 7dbdf43cfa
commit c22ce143d1
5 changed files with 189 additions and 13 deletions

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@ -425,15 +425,121 @@ __copy_user_zeroing_intel(void *to, const void __user *from, unsigned long size)
: "eax", "edx", "memory");
return size;
}
/*
* Non Temporal Hint version of __copy_user_zeroing_intel. It is cache aware.
* hyoshiok@miraclelinux.com
*/
static unsigned long __copy_user_zeroing_intel_nocache(void *to,
const void __user *from, unsigned long size)
{
int d0, d1;
__asm__ __volatile__(
" .align 2,0x90\n"
"0: movl 32(%4), %%eax\n"
" cmpl $67, %0\n"
" jbe 2f\n"
"1: movl 64(%4), %%eax\n"
" .align 2,0x90\n"
"2: movl 0(%4), %%eax\n"
"21: movl 4(%4), %%edx\n"
" movnti %%eax, 0(%3)\n"
" movnti %%edx, 4(%3)\n"
"3: movl 8(%4), %%eax\n"
"31: movl 12(%4),%%edx\n"
" movnti %%eax, 8(%3)\n"
" movnti %%edx, 12(%3)\n"
"4: movl 16(%4), %%eax\n"
"41: movl 20(%4), %%edx\n"
" movnti %%eax, 16(%3)\n"
" movnti %%edx, 20(%3)\n"
"10: movl 24(%4), %%eax\n"
"51: movl 28(%4), %%edx\n"
" movnti %%eax, 24(%3)\n"
" movnti %%edx, 28(%3)\n"
"11: movl 32(%4), %%eax\n"
"61: movl 36(%4), %%edx\n"
" movnti %%eax, 32(%3)\n"
" movnti %%edx, 36(%3)\n"
"12: movl 40(%4), %%eax\n"
"71: movl 44(%4), %%edx\n"
" movnti %%eax, 40(%3)\n"
" movnti %%edx, 44(%3)\n"
"13: movl 48(%4), %%eax\n"
"81: movl 52(%4), %%edx\n"
" movnti %%eax, 48(%3)\n"
" movnti %%edx, 52(%3)\n"
"14: movl 56(%4), %%eax\n"
"91: movl 60(%4), %%edx\n"
" movnti %%eax, 56(%3)\n"
" movnti %%edx, 60(%3)\n"
" addl $-64, %0\n"
" addl $64, %4\n"
" addl $64, %3\n"
" cmpl $63, %0\n"
" ja 0b\n"
" sfence \n"
"5: movl %0, %%eax\n"
" shrl $2, %0\n"
" andl $3, %%eax\n"
" cld\n"
"6: rep; movsl\n"
" movl %%eax,%0\n"
"7: rep; movsb\n"
"8:\n"
".section .fixup,\"ax\"\n"
"9: lea 0(%%eax,%0,4),%0\n"
"16: pushl %0\n"
" pushl %%eax\n"
" xorl %%eax,%%eax\n"
" rep; stosb\n"
" popl %%eax\n"
" popl %0\n"
" jmp 8b\n"
".previous\n"
".section __ex_table,\"a\"\n"
" .align 4\n"
" .long 0b,16b\n"
" .long 1b,16b\n"
" .long 2b,16b\n"
" .long 21b,16b\n"
" .long 3b,16b\n"
" .long 31b,16b\n"
" .long 4b,16b\n"
" .long 41b,16b\n"
" .long 10b,16b\n"
" .long 51b,16b\n"
" .long 11b,16b\n"
" .long 61b,16b\n"
" .long 12b,16b\n"
" .long 71b,16b\n"
" .long 13b,16b\n"
" .long 81b,16b\n"
" .long 14b,16b\n"
" .long 91b,16b\n"
" .long 6b,9b\n"
" .long 7b,16b\n"
".previous"
: "=&c"(size), "=&D" (d0), "=&S" (d1)
: "1"(to), "2"(from), "0"(size)
: "eax", "edx", "memory");
return size;
}
#else
/*
* Leave these declared but undefined. They should not be any references to
* them
*/
unsigned long
__copy_user_zeroing_intel(void *to, const void __user *from, unsigned long size);
unsigned long
__copy_user_intel(void __user *to, const void *from, unsigned long size);
unsigned long __copy_user_zeroing_intel(void *to, const void __user *from,
unsigned long size);
unsigned long __copy_user_intel(void __user *to, const void *from,
unsigned long size);
unsigned long __copy_user_zeroing_intel_nocache(void *to,
const void __user *from, unsigned long size);
#endif /* CONFIG_X86_INTEL_USERCOPY */
/* Generic arbitrary sized copy. */
@ -515,8 +621,8 @@ do { \
: "memory"); \
} while (0)
unsigned long __copy_to_user_ll(void __user *to, const void *from, unsigned long n)
unsigned long __copy_to_user_ll(void __user *to, const void *from,
unsigned long n)
{
BUG_ON((long) n < 0);
#ifndef CONFIG_X86_WP_WORKS_OK
@ -576,8 +682,8 @@ survive:
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(__copy_to_user_ll);
unsigned long
__copy_from_user_ll(void *to, const void __user *from, unsigned long n)
unsigned long __copy_from_user_ll(void *to, const void __user *from,
unsigned long n)
{
BUG_ON((long)n < 0);
if (movsl_is_ok(to, from, n))
@ -588,6 +694,21 @@ __copy_from_user_ll(void *to, const void __user *from, unsigned long n)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(__copy_from_user_ll);
unsigned long __copy_from_user_ll_nocache(void *to, const void __user *from,
unsigned long n)
{
BUG_ON((long)n < 0);
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_INTEL_USERCOPY
if ( n > 64 && cpu_has_xmm2)
n = __copy_user_zeroing_intel_nocache(to, from, n);
else
__copy_user_zeroing(to, from, n);
#else
__copy_user_zeroing(to, from, n);
#endif
return n;
}
/**
* copy_to_user: - Copy a block of data into user space.
* @to: Destination address, in user space.

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@ -390,6 +390,8 @@ unsigned long __must_check __copy_to_user_ll(void __user *to,
const void *from, unsigned long n);
unsigned long __must_check __copy_from_user_ll(void *to,
const void __user *from, unsigned long n);
unsigned long __must_check __copy_from_user_ll_nocache(void *to,
const void __user *from, unsigned long n);
/*
* Here we special-case 1, 2 and 4-byte copy_*_user invocations. On a fault
@ -478,12 +480,43 @@ __copy_from_user_inatomic(void *to, const void __user *from, unsigned long n)
return __copy_from_user_ll(to, from, n);
}
#define ARCH_HAS_NOCACHE_UACCESS
static __always_inline unsigned long __copy_from_user_inatomic_nocache(void *to,
const void __user *from, unsigned long n)
{
if (__builtin_constant_p(n)) {
unsigned long ret;
switch (n) {
case 1:
__get_user_size(*(u8 *)to, from, 1, ret, 1);
return ret;
case 2:
__get_user_size(*(u16 *)to, from, 2, ret, 2);
return ret;
case 4:
__get_user_size(*(u32 *)to, from, 4, ret, 4);
return ret;
}
}
return __copy_from_user_ll_nocache(to, from, n);
}
static __always_inline unsigned long
__copy_from_user(void *to, const void __user *from, unsigned long n)
{
might_sleep();
return __copy_from_user_inatomic(to, from, n);
}
static __always_inline unsigned long
__copy_from_user_nocache(void *to, const void __user *from, unsigned long n)
{
might_sleep();
return __copy_from_user_inatomic_nocache(to, from, n);
}
unsigned long __must_check copy_to_user(void __user *to,
const void *from, unsigned long n);
unsigned long __must_check copy_from_user(void *to,

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@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
#ifndef __LINUX_UACCESS_H__
#define __LINUX_UACCESS_H__
#include <asm/uaccess.h>
#ifndef ARCH_HAS_NOCACHE_UACCESS
static inline unsigned long __copy_from_user_inatomic_nocache(void *to,
const void __user *from, unsigned long n)
{
return __copy_from_user_inatomic(to, from, n);
}
static inline unsigned long __copy_from_user_nocache(void *to,
const void __user *from, unsigned long n)
{
return __copy_from_user(to, from, n);
}
#endif /* ARCH_HAS_NOCACHE_UACCESS */
#endif /* __LINUX_UACCESS_H__ */

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@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/compiler.h>
#include <linux/fs.h>
#include <linux/uaccess.h>
#include <linux/aio.h>
#include <linux/capability.h>
#include <linux/kernel_stat.h>
@ -38,7 +39,6 @@
*/
#include <linux/buffer_head.h> /* for generic_osync_inode */
#include <asm/uaccess.h>
#include <asm/mman.h>
static ssize_t
@ -1902,7 +1902,7 @@ __filemap_copy_from_user_iovec(char *vaddr,
int copy = min(bytes, iov->iov_len - base);
base = 0;
left = __copy_from_user_inatomic(vaddr, buf, copy);
left = __copy_from_user_inatomic_nocache(vaddr, buf, copy);
copied += copy;
bytes -= copy;
vaddr += copy;

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@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
#include <linux/highmem.h>
#include <linux/uio.h>
#include <linux/config.h>
#include <asm/uaccess.h>
#include <linux/uaccess.h>
size_t
__filemap_copy_from_user_iovec(char *vaddr,
@ -34,13 +34,13 @@ filemap_copy_from_user(struct page *page, unsigned long offset,
int left;
kaddr = kmap_atomic(page, KM_USER0);
left = __copy_from_user_inatomic(kaddr + offset, buf, bytes);
left = __copy_from_user_inatomic_nocache(kaddr + offset, buf, bytes);
kunmap_atomic(kaddr, KM_USER0);
if (left != 0) {
/* Do it the slow way */
kaddr = kmap(page);
left = __copy_from_user(kaddr + offset, buf, bytes);
left = __copy_from_user_nocache(kaddr + offset, buf, bytes);
kunmap(page);
}
return bytes - left;