From: Andrew Jones <ajones@ventanamicro.com>
To: Xu Lu <luxu.kernel@bytedance.com>
Cc: "Christoph Müllner" <christoph.muellner@vrull.eu>,
paul.walmsley@sifive.com, palmer@dabbelt.com,
aou@eecs.berkeley.edu, andy.chiu@sifive.com, guoren@kernel.org,
linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
lihangjing@bytedance.com, dengliang.1214@bytedance.com,
xieyongji@bytedance.com, chaiwen.cc@bytedance.com,
"Conor Dooley" <conor.dooley@microchip.com>
Subject: Re: [External] Re: [RFC 0/2] riscv: Idle thread using Zawrs extension
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2024 16:10:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240418-606209ea257878abceb8dc79@orel> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPYmKFudqq6Yg=uaVjAubCMM5TBMj8dkC0mXz+6eq3vNizTt7A@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Apr 18, 2024 at 09:09:06PM +0800, Xu Lu wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 18, 2024 at 8:56 PM Christoph Müllner
> <christoph.muellner@vrull.eu> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 18, 2024 at 2:44 PM Xu Lu <luxu.kernel@bytedance.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Thu, Apr 18, 2024 at 8:26 PM Christoph Müllner
> > > <christoph.muellner@vrull.eu> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, Apr 18, 2024 at 1:50 PM Xu Lu <luxu.kernel@bytedance.com> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > This patch series introduces a new implementation of idle thread using
> > > > > Zawrs extension.
> > > >
> > > > This overlaps with the following series:
> > > > https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240315134009.580167-7-ajones@ventanamicro.com/
> > >
> > > Hi Christoph.
> > > Thanks for your reply!
> > > Actually our patch series is different from this. The work from your
> > > link focuses on providing support for Zawrs and implementing spinlock
> > > using it, while our work focuses on implementing idle thread using
> > > Zawrs and accelerating IPI to idle cpu. Of course, the ISA ZAWRS
> > > config part can be merged. We will refine our code in the next version
> > > to reduce code conflicts.
> >
> > Yes, I've seen that this targets another optimization, but the basic
> > Zawrs support
> > would be identical to the other patchset (even if it is not).
> > I would propose that we work on a basic Zawrs support patchset that introduces
> > the Kconfig, DTS and hwprobe parts (a subset of Andrew's patchset).
> > Once this is merged, all other optimizations can be built upon it
> > (spinlocks, idle thread, glibc CPU spinning).
> > If this proposal is fine for the maintainers/reviewers, then Andrew could resend
> > these basic-support patches.
> >
> > BR
> > Christoph
>
> Roger that! This does make more sense. We will rebase our code on
> Andrew's basic support patches in the next version.
And I'm just about to send that next version. I'll send tomorrow morning
if not yet today.
Thanks,
drew
>
> Regards,
> Xu Lu
>
> >
> >
> > >
> > > >
> > > > BR
> > > > Christoph
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > The Zawrs[0] extension introduces two new instructions named WRS.STO and
> > > > > WRS.NTO in RISC-V. When software registers a reservation set using LR
> > > > > instruction, a subsequent WRS.STO or WRS.NTO instruction will cause the
> > > > > hart to stall in a low-power state until a store happens to the
> > > > > reservation set or an interrupt becomes pending. The difference between
> > > > > these two instructions is that WRS.STO will terminate stall after an
> > > > > implementation-defined timeout while WRS.NTO won't.
> > > > >
> > > > > This patch series implements idle thread using WRS.NTO instruction.
> > > > > Besides, we found there is no need to send a real IPI to wake up an idle
> > > > > CPU. Instead, we write IPI information to the reservation set of an idle
> > > > > CPU to wake it up and let it handle IPI quickly, without going through
> > > > > tranditional interrupt handling routine.
> > > > >
> > > > > [0] https://github.com/riscv/riscv-zawrs/blob/main/zawrs.adoc
> > > > >
> > > > > Xu Lu (2):
> > > > > riscv: process: Introduce idle thread using Zawrs extension
> > > > > riscv: Use Zawrs to accelerate IPI to idle cpu
> > > > >
> > > > > arch/riscv/Kconfig | 24 +++++++
> > > > > arch/riscv/include/asm/cpuidle.h | 11 +---
> > > > > arch/riscv/include/asm/hwcap.h | 1 +
> > > > > arch/riscv/include/asm/processor.h | 31 +++++++++
> > > > > arch/riscv/include/asm/smp.h | 14 ++++
> > > > > arch/riscv/kernel/cpu.c | 5 ++
> > > > > arch/riscv/kernel/cpufeature.c | 1 +
> > > > > arch/riscv/kernel/process.c | 102 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> > > > > arch/riscv/kernel/smp.c | 39 +++++++----
> > > > > 9 files changed, 205 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
> > > > >
> > > > > --
> > > > > 2.20.1
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > _______________________________________________
> > > > > linux-riscv mailing list
> > > > > linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-04-18 14:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-04-18 11:49 [RFC 0/2] riscv: Idle thread using Zawrs extension Xu Lu
2024-04-18 11:49 ` [RFC 1/2] riscv: process: Introduce idle " Xu Lu
2024-04-18 15:05 ` Conor Dooley
2024-04-18 16:14 ` [External] " Xu Lu
2024-04-22 8:21 ` Conor Dooley
2024-04-18 19:10 ` Andrew Jones
2024-04-18 22:00 ` Samuel Holland
2024-04-18 22:09 ` Conor Dooley
2024-04-18 11:49 ` [RFC 2/2] riscv: Use Zawrs to accelerate IPI to idle cpu Xu Lu
2024-04-18 12:26 ` [RFC 0/2] riscv: Idle thread using Zawrs extension Christoph Müllner
2024-04-18 12:44 ` [External] " Xu Lu
2024-04-18 12:56 ` Christoph Müllner
2024-04-18 13:09 ` Xu Lu
2024-04-18 14:08 ` Conor Dooley
2024-04-18 14:10 ` Andrew Jones [this message]
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