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From: Albert ARIBAUD <albert.u.boot@aribaud.net>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 0/5] dcache support for Raspberry Pi 1
Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2015 09:39:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150706093940.22ac123b@lilith> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1436003324-8769-1-git-send-email-alexanders83@web.de>

Hello Alexander,

On Sat,  4 Jul 2015 11:48:39 +0200, Alexander Stein
<alexanders83@web.de> wrote:

> dcache supprt increases the MMC read performance on RPI 1 from 5,4 MiB/s to
> 12.3 MiB/s. It doesn't seem to have any affect on RPI 2 though. I just get
> error messages about non-cacheline aligned address upon invalidation.

Could it be that code needed to support dcache is not the same for
rpi_2's bcm2836 than it is for rpi's bcm2835?

Anyway: if code properly handles unaligned addresses then it should not
throw an error message about it. Can you look into why the error is
thrown?

> The performance stucks at 1.2 MiB/s.
> 
> This was tested by the following command:
> > fatload mmc 0:1 ${kernel_addr_r} zImage
> 
> Alexander Stein (5):
>   arm1176/cpu: Match cache_flush to arm1136
>   arm1176/cpu: Add icache and dcache support
>   arm1176/cpu: Align cache flushing addresses to cacheline size
>   arm/mach-bcm283x/mbox: Flush and invalidate dcache when using fw
>     mailbox
>   arm/rpi: Enable dcache
> 
>  arch/arm/cpu/arm1176/cpu.c   | 114 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>  arch/arm/mach-bcm283x/mbox.c |   6 +++
>  include/configs/rpi-common.h |   1 -
>  3 files changed, 116 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.4.5
> 



Amicalement,
-- 
Albert.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-07-06  7:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-04  9:48 [U-Boot] [PATCH 0/5] dcache support for Raspberry Pi 1 Alexander Stein
2015-07-04  9:48 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/5] arm1176/cpu: Match cache_flush to arm1136 Alexander Stein
2015-07-11  5:20   ` Stephen Warren
2015-07-12  7:23     ` Alexander Stein
2015-07-04  9:48 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 2/5] arm1176/cpu: Add icache and dcache support Alexander Stein
2015-07-11  5:21   ` Stephen Warren
2015-07-12  7:26     ` Alexander Stein
2015-07-14  4:57       ` Stephen Warren
2015-07-04  9:48 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 3/5] arm1176/cpu: Align cache flushing addresses to cacheline size Alexander Stein
2015-07-11  5:21   ` Stephen Warren
2015-07-04  9:48 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 4/5] arm/mach-bcm283x/mbox: Flush and invalidate dcache when using fw mailbox Alexander Stein
2015-07-11  5:24   ` Stephen Warren
2015-07-04  9:48 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 5/5] arm/rpi: Enable dcache Alexander Stein
2015-07-11  5:24   ` Stephen Warren
2015-07-12  7:30     ` Alexander Stein
2015-07-14  4:57       ` Stephen Warren
2015-07-06  7:39 ` Albert ARIBAUD [this message]
2015-07-06 18:24   ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 0/5] dcache support for Raspberry Pi 1 Alexander Stein
2015-07-06 21:26     ` Albert ARIBAUD
2015-07-08 18:15       ` Alexander Stein
2015-07-08 22:47         ` Albert ARIBAUD
2015-07-11  5:17 ` Stephen Warren
2015-07-12  8:10   ` Alexander Stein
2015-07-14  5:02     ` Stephen Warren

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