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author | Hiro Yoshioka <hyoshiok@miraclelinux.com> | 2006-06-23 02:04:16 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-06-23 07:42:56 -0700 |
commit | c22ce143d15eb288543fe9873e1c5ac1c01b69a1 (patch) | |
tree | dc7d457b8952fc50dfc90df659b35de4117c61fc /arch/i386/lib/usercopy.c | |
parent | 7dbdf43cfa635ddc3701cc8d1eab07597cd731c0 (diff) | |
download | linux-c22ce143d15eb288543fe9873e1c5ac1c01b69a1.tar.bz2 |
[PATCH] x86: cache pollution aware __copy_from_user_ll()
Use the x86 cache-bypassing copy instructions for copy_from_user().
Some performance data are
Total of GLOBAL_POWER_EVENTS (CPU cycle samples)
2.6.12.4.orig 1921587
2.6.12.4.nt 1599424
1599424/1921587=83.23% (16.77% reduction)
BSQ_CACHE_REFERENCE (L3 cache miss)
2.6.12.4.orig 57427
2.6.12.4.nt 20858
20858/57427=36.32% (63.7% reduction)
L3 cache miss reduction of __copy_from_user_ll
samples %
37408 65.1412 vmlinux __copy_from_user_ll
23 0.1103 vmlinux __copy_user_zeroing_intel_nocache
23/37408=0.061% (99.94% reduction)
Top 5 of 2.6.12.4.nt
Counted GLOBAL_POWER_EVENTS events (time during which processor is not stopped) with a unit mask of 0x01 (mandatory) count 100000
samples % app name symbol name
128392 8.0274 vmlinux __copy_user_zeroing_intel_nocache
64206 4.0143 vmlinux journal_add_journal_head
59746 3.7355 vmlinux do_get_write_access
47674 2.9807 vmlinux journal_put_journal_head
46021 2.8774 vmlinux journal_dirty_metadata
pattern9-0-cpu4-0-09011728/summary.out
Counted BSQ_CACHE_REFERENCE events (cache references seen by the bus unit) with a unit mask of 0x3f (multiple flags) count 3000
samples % app name symbol name
69755 4.2861 vmlinux __copy_user_zeroing_intel_nocache
55685 3.4215 vmlinux journal_add_journal_head
52371 3.2179 vmlinux __find_get_block
45504 2.7960 vmlinux journal_put_journal_head
36005 2.2123 vmlinux journal_stop
pattern9-0-cpu4-0-09011744/summary.out
Counted BSQ_CACHE_REFERENCE events (cache references seen by the bus unit) with a unit mask of 0x200 (read 3rd level cache miss) count 3000
samples % app name symbol name
1147 5.4994 vmlinux journal_add_journal_head
881 4.2240 vmlinux journal_dirty_data
872 4.1809 vmlinux blk_rq_map_sg
734 3.5192 vmlinux journal_commit_transaction
617 2.9582 vmlinux radix_tree_delete
pattern9-0-cpu4-0-09011731/summary.out
iozone results are
original 2.6.12.4 CPU time = 207.768 sec
cache aware CPU time = 184.783 sec
(three times run)
184.783/207.768=88.94% (11.06% reduction)
original:
pattern9-0-cpu4-0-08191720/iozone.out: CPU Utilization: Wall time 45.997 CPU time 64.527 CPU utilization 140.28 %
pattern9-0-cpu4-0-08191741/iozone.out: CPU Utilization: Wall time 46.878 CPU time 71.933 CPU utilization 153.45 %
pattern9-0-cpu4-0-08191743/iozone.out: CPU Utilization: Wall time 45.152 CPU time 71.308 CPU utilization 157.93 %
cache awre:
pattern9-0-cpu4-0-09011728/iozone.out: CPU Utilization: Wall time 44.842 CPU time 62.465 CPU utilization 139.30 %
pattern9-0-cpu4-0-09011731/iozone.out: CPU Utilization: Wall time 44.718 CPU time 59.273 CPU utilization 132.55 %
pattern9-0-cpu4-0-09011744/iozone.out: CPU Utilization: Wall time 44.367 CPU time 63.045 CPU utilization 142.10 %
Signed-off-by: Hiro Yoshioka <hyoshiok@miraclelinux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/i386/lib/usercopy.c')
-rw-r--r-- | arch/i386/lib/usercopy.c | 137 |
1 files changed, 129 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/arch/i386/lib/usercopy.c b/arch/i386/lib/usercopy.c index 4cf981d70f45..6979297ce278 100644 --- a/arch/i386/lib/usercopy.c +++ b/arch/i386/lib/usercopy.c @@ -425,15 +425,121 @@ __copy_user_zeroing_intel(void *to, const void __user *from, unsigned long size) : "eax", "edx", "memory"); return size; } + +/* + * Non Temporal Hint version of __copy_user_zeroing_intel. It is cache aware. + * hyoshiok@miraclelinux.com + */ + +static unsigned long __copy_user_zeroing_intel_nocache(void *to, + const void __user *from, unsigned long size) +{ + int d0, d1; + + __asm__ __volatile__( + " .align 2,0x90\n" + "0: movl 32(%4), %%eax\n" + " cmpl $67, %0\n" + " jbe 2f\n" + "1: movl 64(%4), %%eax\n" + " .align 2,0x90\n" + "2: movl 0(%4), %%eax\n" + "21: movl 4(%4), %%edx\n" + " movnti %%eax, 0(%3)\n" + " movnti %%edx, 4(%3)\n" + "3: movl 8(%4), %%eax\n" + "31: movl 12(%4),%%edx\n" + " movnti %%eax, 8(%3)\n" + " movnti %%edx, 12(%3)\n" + "4: movl 16(%4), %%eax\n" + "41: movl 20(%4), %%edx\n" + " movnti %%eax, 16(%3)\n" + " movnti %%edx, 20(%3)\n" + "10: movl 24(%4), %%eax\n" + "51: movl 28(%4), %%edx\n" + " movnti %%eax, 24(%3)\n" + " movnti %%edx, 28(%3)\n" + "11: movl 32(%4), %%eax\n" + "61: movl 36(%4), %%edx\n" + " movnti %%eax, 32(%3)\n" + " movnti %%edx, 36(%3)\n" + "12: movl 40(%4), %%eax\n" + "71: movl 44(%4), %%edx\n" + " movnti %%eax, 40(%3)\n" + " movnti %%edx, 44(%3)\n" + "13: movl 48(%4), %%eax\n" + "81: movl 52(%4), %%edx\n" + " movnti %%eax, 48(%3)\n" + " movnti %%edx, 52(%3)\n" + "14: movl 56(%4), %%eax\n" + "91: movl 60(%4), %%edx\n" + " movnti %%eax, 56(%3)\n" + " movnti %%edx, 60(%3)\n" + " addl $-64, %0\n" + " addl $64, %4\n" + " addl $64, %3\n" + " cmpl $63, %0\n" + " ja 0b\n" + " sfence \n" + "5: movl %0, %%eax\n" + " shrl $2, %0\n" + " andl $3, %%eax\n" + " cld\n" + "6: rep; movsl\n" + " movl %%eax,%0\n" + "7: rep; movsb\n" + "8:\n" + ".section .fixup,\"ax\"\n" + "9: lea 0(%%eax,%0,4),%0\n" + "16: pushl %0\n" + " pushl %%eax\n" + " xorl %%eax,%%eax\n" + " rep; stosb\n" + " popl %%eax\n" + " popl %0\n" + " jmp 8b\n" + ".previous\n" + ".section __ex_table,\"a\"\n" + " .align 4\n" + " .long 0b,16b\n" + " .long 1b,16b\n" + " .long 2b,16b\n" + " .long 21b,16b\n" + " .long 3b,16b\n" + " .long 31b,16b\n" + " .long 4b,16b\n" + " .long 41b,16b\n" + " .long 10b,16b\n" + " .long 51b,16b\n" + " .long 11b,16b\n" + " .long 61b,16b\n" + " .long 12b,16b\n" + " .long 71b,16b\n" + " .long 13b,16b\n" + " .long 81b,16b\n" + " .long 14b,16b\n" + " .long 91b,16b\n" + " .long 6b,9b\n" + " .long 7b,16b\n" + ".previous" + : "=&c"(size), "=&D" (d0), "=&S" (d1) + : "1"(to), "2"(from), "0"(size) + : "eax", "edx", "memory"); + return size; +} + #else + /* * Leave these declared but undefined. They should not be any references to * them */ -unsigned long -__copy_user_zeroing_intel(void *to, const void __user *from, unsigned long size); -unsigned long -__copy_user_intel(void __user *to, const void *from, unsigned long size); +unsigned long __copy_user_zeroing_intel(void *to, const void __user *from, + unsigned long size); +unsigned long __copy_user_intel(void __user *to, const void *from, + unsigned long size); +unsigned long __copy_user_zeroing_intel_nocache(void *to, + const void __user *from, unsigned long size); #endif /* CONFIG_X86_INTEL_USERCOPY */ /* Generic arbitrary sized copy. */ @@ -515,8 +621,8 @@ do { \ : "memory"); \ } while (0) - -unsigned long __copy_to_user_ll(void __user *to, const void *from, unsigned long n) +unsigned long __copy_to_user_ll(void __user *to, const void *from, + unsigned long n) { BUG_ON((long) n < 0); #ifndef CONFIG_X86_WP_WORKS_OK @@ -576,8 +682,8 @@ survive: } EXPORT_SYMBOL(__copy_to_user_ll); -unsigned long -__copy_from_user_ll(void *to, const void __user *from, unsigned long n) +unsigned long __copy_from_user_ll(void *to, const void __user *from, + unsigned long n) { BUG_ON((long)n < 0); if (movsl_is_ok(to, from, n)) @@ -588,6 +694,21 @@ __copy_from_user_ll(void *to, const void __user *from, unsigned long n) } EXPORT_SYMBOL(__copy_from_user_ll); +unsigned long __copy_from_user_ll_nocache(void *to, const void __user *from, + unsigned long n) +{ + BUG_ON((long)n < 0); +#ifdef CONFIG_X86_INTEL_USERCOPY + if ( n > 64 && cpu_has_xmm2) + n = __copy_user_zeroing_intel_nocache(to, from, n); + else + __copy_user_zeroing(to, from, n); +#else + __copy_user_zeroing(to, from, n); +#endif + return n; +} + /** * copy_to_user: - Copy a block of data into user space. * @to: Destination address, in user space. |