From 60e0a09db24adc8809696307e5d97cc4ba7cb3e0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrew Pinski Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2016 12:46:26 +0000 Subject: arm64: lib: patch in prfm for copy_page if requested On ThunderX T88 pass 1 and pass 2, there is no hardware prefetching so we need to patch in explicit software prefetching instructions Prefetching improves this code by 60% over the original code and 2x over the code without prefetching for the affected hardware using the benchmark code at https://github.com/apinski-cavium/copy_page_benchmark Signed-off-by: Andrew Pinski Signed-off-by: Will Deacon Tested-by: Andrew Pinski Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas --- arch/arm64/lib/copy_page.S | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) (limited to 'arch/arm64') diff --git a/arch/arm64/lib/copy_page.S b/arch/arm64/lib/copy_page.S index 2534533ceb1d..4c1e700840b6 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/lib/copy_page.S +++ b/arch/arm64/lib/copy_page.S @@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ #include #include #include +#include +#include /* * Copy a page from src to dest (both are page aligned) @@ -27,6 +29,15 @@ * x1 - src */ ENTRY(copy_page) +alternative_if_not ARM64_HAS_NO_HW_PREFETCH + nop + nop +alternative_else + # Prefetch two cache lines ahead. + prfm pldl1strm, [x1, #128] + prfm pldl1strm, [x1, #256] +alternative_endif + ldp x2, x3, [x1] ldp x4, x5, [x1, #16] ldp x6, x7, [x1, #32] @@ -41,6 +52,12 @@ ENTRY(copy_page) 1: subs x18, x18, #128 +alternative_if_not ARM64_HAS_NO_HW_PREFETCH + nop +alternative_else + prfm pldl1strm, [x1, #384] +alternative_endif + stnp x2, x3, [x0] ldp x2, x3, [x1] stnp x4, x5, [x0, #16] -- cgit