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From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
To: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] arm64/io: Provide a WC friendly __iowriteXX_copy()
Date: Thu, 29 Feb 2024 10:24:42 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZeBbamDoHIxzzfof@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240228230616.GS13330@nvidia.com>

On Wed, Feb 28, 2024 at 07:06:16PM -0400, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 10:37:18AM +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 20, 2024 at 09:17:08PM -0400, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > > +/*
> > > + * This generates a memcpy that works on a from/to address which is aligned to
> > > + * bits. Count is in terms of the number of bits sized quantities to copy. It
> > > + * optimizes to use the STR groupings when possible so that it is WC friendly.
> > > + */
> > > +#define memcpy_toio_aligned(to, from, count, bits)                        \
> > > +	({                                                                \
> > > +		volatile u##bits __iomem *_to = to;                       \
> > > +		const u##bits *_from = from;                              \
> > > +		size_t _count = count;                                    \
> > > +		const u##bits *_end_from = _from + ALIGN_DOWN(_count, 8); \
> > > +                                                                          \
> > > +		for (; _from < _end_from; _from += 8, _to += 8)           \
> > > +			__const_memcpy_toio_aligned##bits(_to, _from, 8); \
> > > +		if ((_count % 8) >= 4) {                                  \
> > > +			__const_memcpy_toio_aligned##bits(_to, _from, 4); \
> > > +			_from += 4;                                       \
> > > +			_to += 4;                                         \
> > > +		}                                                         \
> > > +		if ((_count % 4) >= 2) {                                  \
> > > +			__const_memcpy_toio_aligned##bits(_to, _from, 2); \
> > > +			_from += 2;                                       \
> > > +			_to += 2;                                         \
> > > +		}                                                         \
> > > +		if (_count % 2)                                           \
> > > +			__const_memcpy_toio_aligned##bits(_to, _from, 1); \
> > > +	})
> > 
> > Do we actually need all this if count is not constant? If it's not
> > performance critical anywhere, I'd rather copy the generic
> > implementation, it's easier to read.
> 
> Which generic version?

The current __iowriteXX_copy() in lib/iomap_copy.c (copy them over or
add some preprocessor reuse the generic functions).

> The point is to maximize WC effects with non-constant values, so I
> think we do need something like this. ie we can't just fall back to
> looping over 64 bit stores one at a time.

If that's a case you are also targeting and have seen it in practice,
that's fine. But I had the impression that you are mostly after the
constant count case which is already addressed by the other part of this
patch. For the non-constant case, we have a DGH only at the end of
whatever buffer was copied rather than after every 64-byte increments
you'd get for a count of 8.

> Most places I know about using this are performance paths, the entire
> iocopy infrastructure was introduced as an x86 performance
> optimization..

At least the x86 case makes sense even from a maintenance perspective,
it's just a much simpler "rep movsl". I just want to make sure we don't
over-complicate this code on arm64 unnecessarily.

-- 
Catalin

  reply	other threads:[~2024-02-29 10:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-02-21  1:17 [PATCH 0/6] Fix mlx5 write combining support on new ARM64 cores Jason Gunthorpe
2024-02-21  1:17 ` [PATCH 1/6] x86: Stop using weak symbols for __iowrite32_copy() Jason Gunthorpe
2024-02-21  1:17 ` [PATCH 2/6] s390: Implement __iowrite32_copy() Jason Gunthorpe
2024-02-21  1:17 ` [PATCH 3/6] s390: Stop using weak symbols for __iowrite64_copy() Jason Gunthorpe
2024-02-21  1:17 ` [PATCH 4/6] arm64/io: Provide a WC friendly __iowriteXX_copy() Jason Gunthorpe
2024-02-21 19:22   ` Will Deacon
2024-02-21 23:28     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-02-22 22:05   ` David Laight
2024-02-22 22:36     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-02-23  9:07       ` David Laight
2024-02-23 11:01         ` Niklas Schnelle
2024-02-23 11:05           ` David Laight
2024-02-23 12:53             ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-02-23 11:38         ` Niklas Schnelle
2024-02-23 12:19           ` David Laight
2024-02-23 13:03             ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-02-23 13:52               ` David Laight
2024-02-23 14:44                 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-02-23 12:58           ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-02-23 16:35             ` Niklas Schnelle
2024-02-23 17:05               ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-02-27 10:37   ` Catalin Marinas
2024-02-28 23:06     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-02-29 10:24       ` Catalin Marinas [this message]
2024-02-29 13:28         ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-02-29 10:33   ` Catalin Marinas
2024-02-29 13:29     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-03-01 18:52   ` Catalin Marinas
2024-02-21  1:17 ` [PATCH 5/6] net: hns3: Remove io_stop_wc() calls after __iowrite64_copy() Jason Gunthorpe
2024-02-22  0:57   ` Jijie Shao
2024-02-21  1:17 ` [PATCH 6/6] IB/mlx5: Use __iowrite64_copy() for write combining stores Jason Gunthorpe

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