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authorAnthony Yznaga <anthony.yznaga@oracle.com>2017-08-18 12:40:36 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2017-09-09 20:20:11 -0700
commita7159a87a3836f61a97882e671d2d66bbb96c62e (patch)
tree3f56de47be55b0367bb7588869f9c95ee2516409 /arch/sparc/include
parent5bd0ea9107dca975dc4ba4d9de39b4938d2cb36d (diff)
sparc64: speed up etrap/rtrap on NG2 and later processors
For many sun4v processor types, reading or writing a privileged register has a latency of 40 to 70 cycles. Use a combination of the low-latency allclean, otherw, normalw, and nop instructions in etrap and rtrap to replace 2 rdpr and 5 wrpr instructions and improve etrap/rtrap performance. allclean, otherw, and normalw are available on NG2 and later processors. The average ticks to execute the flush windows trap ("ta 0x3") with and without this patch on select platforms: CPU Not patched Patched % Latency Reduction NG2 1762 1558 -11.58 NG4 3619 3204 -11.47 M7 3015 2624 -12.97 SPARC64-X 829 770 -7.12 Signed-off-by: Anthony Yznaga <anthony.yznaga@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/sparc/include')
-rw-r--r--arch/sparc/include/asm/trap_block.h2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/sparc/include/asm/trap_block.h b/arch/sparc/include/asm/trap_block.h
index ff05992dae7a..dfc538609eb2 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/include/asm/trap_block.h
+++ b/arch/sparc/include/asm/trap_block.h
@@ -73,6 +73,8 @@ struct sun4v_1insn_patch_entry {
};
extern struct sun4v_1insn_patch_entry __sun4v_1insn_patch,
__sun4v_1insn_patch_end;
+extern struct sun4v_1insn_patch_entry __fast_win_ctrl_1insn_patch,
+ __fast_win_ctrl_1insn_patch_end;
struct sun4v_2insn_patch_entry {
unsigned int addr;