[PATCH v2] irqchip/gicv3-its: Enable cacheable attribute Read-allocate hints
Shanker Donthineni
shankerd at codeaurora.org
Mon Nov 7 23:25:29 PST 2016
Hi Marc,
I attached the test code that I used to benchmark ReadAllocate hints
performance on Qualcomm hardware.
Shanker
On 11/08/2016 01:18 AM, Shanker Donthineni wrote:
> Read-allocation hints are not enabled for both the GIC-ITS and GICR
> tables. This forces the hardware to always read the table contents
> from an external memory (DDR) which is slow compared to cache memory.
> Most of the tables are often read by hardware. So, it's better to
> enable Read-allocate hints in addition to Write-allocate hints in
> order to improve the GICR_PEND, GICR_PROP, Collection, Device, and
> vCPU tables lookup time.
>
> Signed-off-by: Shanker Donthineni <shankerd at codeaurora.org>
> ---
> Implemented a test case to prove that enabling Read Allocation hints
> improves ITS lookup time ~15% while delivering a LPI event. Used the
> ITS command INV to analyze time spent in device, collection, prop and
> pending table lookups.
>
> Pseudo code:
> Create a fake ITS device.
> Record PMU cycle counter before sending INV command.
> Build and send ITS INT command.
> ITS hardware triggers device table lookup.
> ITTE table & collection table lookup.
> ITS property table lookup.
> ITS pending table lookup.
> Deliver interrupt to CPU interface.
> do_IRQ() called.
> Measure the total CPU cycle spent to reach this point.
>
> Without ReadAllocation hints:
> /sys/kernel/debug # echo 100 > lpitest
> [ 94.693968] CPU[1] niter=100 cycles=0x8dfc0 avg=0x16b7 min=0x1652
>
> With ReadAllocation hints:
> /sys/kernel/debug # echo 100 > lpitest
> [ 98.617873] CPU[1] niter=100 cycles=0x7df49 avg=0x1427 min=0x1388
>
> drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3-its.c | 10 +++++-----
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3-its.c b/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3-its.c
> index c5dee30..227a1eb 100644
> --- a/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3-its.c
> +++ b/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3-its.c
> @@ -961,7 +961,7 @@ static bool its_parse_baser_device(struct its_node *its, struct its_baser *baser
> u32 psz, u32 *order)
> {
> u64 esz = GITS_BASER_ENTRY_SIZE(its_read_baser(its, baser));
> - u64 val = GITS_BASER_InnerShareable | GITS_BASER_WaWb;
> + u64 val = GITS_BASER_InnerShareable | GITS_BASER_RaWaWb;
> u32 ids = its->device_ids;
> u32 new_order = *order;
> bool indirect = false;
> @@ -1026,7 +1026,7 @@ static int its_alloc_tables(struct its_node *its)
> u64 typer = gic_read_typer(its->base + GITS_TYPER);
> u32 ids = GITS_TYPER_DEVBITS(typer);
> u64 shr = GITS_BASER_InnerShareable;
> - u64 cache = GITS_BASER_WaWb;
> + u64 cache = GITS_BASER_RaWaWb;
> u32 psz = SZ_64K;
> int err, i;
>
> @@ -1123,7 +1123,7 @@ static void its_cpu_init_lpis(void)
> /* set PROPBASE */
> val = (page_to_phys(gic_rdists->prop_page) |
> GICR_PROPBASER_InnerShareable |
> - GICR_PROPBASER_WaWb |
> + GICR_PROPBASER_RaWaWb |
> ((LPI_NRBITS - 1) & GICR_PROPBASER_IDBITS_MASK));
>
> writeq_relaxed(val, rbase + GICR_PROPBASER);
> @@ -1148,7 +1148,7 @@ static void its_cpu_init_lpis(void)
> /* set PENDBASE */
> val = (page_to_phys(pend_page) |
> GICR_PENDBASER_InnerShareable |
> - GICR_PENDBASER_WaWb);
> + GICR_PENDBASER_RaWaWb);
>
> writeq_relaxed(val, rbase + GICR_PENDBASER);
> tmp = readq_relaxed(rbase + GICR_PENDBASER);
> @@ -1712,7 +1712,7 @@ static int __init its_probe_one(struct resource *res,
> goto out_free_tables;
>
> baser = (virt_to_phys(its->cmd_base) |
> - GITS_CBASER_WaWb |
> + GITS_CBASER_RaWaWb |
> GITS_CBASER_InnerShareable |
> (ITS_CMD_QUEUE_SZ / SZ_4K - 1) |
> GITS_CBASER_VALID);
--
Shanker Donthineni
Qualcomm Datacenter Technologies, Inc. as an affiliate of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. is a member of the Code Aurora Forum, a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project.
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