Hi Mike
Could you please push this patch to the kernel 4.18-rc? Dan Williams said
that he will submit it, but he forgot about it.
Without this patch, dm-writecache is suffering 2% penalty because of
memcpy_flushcache overhead.
Mikulas
From: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx>
I use memcpy_flushcache in my persistent memory driver for metadata
updates and it turns out that the overhead of memcpy_flushcache causes 2%
performance degradation compared to "movnti" instruction explicitly coded
using inline assembler.
This patch recognizes memcpy_flushcache calls with constant short length
and turns them into inline assembler - so that I don't have to use inline
assembler in the driver.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/string_64.h | 20 +++++++++++++++++++-
arch/x86/lib/usercopy_64.c | 4 ++--
2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
Index: linux-2.6/arch/x86/include/asm/string_64.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/arch/x86/include/asm/string_64.h
+++ linux-2.6/arch/x86/include/asm/string_64.h
@@ -149,7 +149,25 @@ memcpy_mcsafe(void *dst, const void *src
#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_UACCESS_FLUSHCACHE
#define __HAVE_ARCH_MEMCPY_FLUSHCACHE 1
-void memcpy_flushcache(void *dst, const void *src, size_t cnt);
+void __memcpy_flushcache(void *dst, const void *src, size_t cnt);
+static __always_inline void memcpy_flushcache(void *dst, const void *src, size_t cnt)
+{
+ if (__builtin_constant_p(cnt)) {
+ switch (cnt) {
+ case 4:
+ asm ("movntil %1, %0" : "=m"(*(u32 *)dst) : "r"(*(u32 *)src));
+ return;
+ case 8:
+ asm ("movntiq %1, %0" : "=m"(*(u64 *)dst) : "r"(*(u64 *)src));
+ return;
+ case 16:
+ asm ("movntiq %1, %0" : "=m"(*(u64 *)dst) : "r"(*(u64 *)src));
+ asm ("movntiq %1, %0" : "=m"(*(u64 *)(dst + 8)) : "r"(*(u64 *)(src + 8)));
+ return;
+ }
+ }
+ __memcpy_flushcache(dst, src, cnt);
+}
#endif
#endif /* __KERNEL__ */
Index: linux-2.6/arch/x86/lib/usercopy_64.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/arch/x86/lib/usercopy_64.c
+++ linux-2.6/arch/x86/lib/usercopy_64.c
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ long __copy_user_flushcache(void *dst, c
return rc;
}
-void memcpy_flushcache(void *_dst, const void *_src, size_t size)
+void __memcpy_flushcache(void *_dst, const void *_src, size_t size)
{
unsigned long dest = (unsigned long) _dst;
unsigned long source = (unsigned long) _src;
@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ void memcpy_flushcache(void *_dst, const
clean_cache_range((void *) dest, size);
}
}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(memcpy_flushcache);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__memcpy_flushcache);
void memcpy_page_flushcache(char *to, struct page *page, size_t offset,
size_t len)
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