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It > > > > does make a huge improvement, but it still somehow fails to combine > > > > rarely sometimes. The CPU is really bad at this :( > > > > > > I think the thread was from last year so I've forgotten most of the > > > details, but wasn't STP rejected because it wasn't virtualisable? > > > > Yes, that was the claim. > > > > > In which case, doesn't NEON suffer from exactly the same (or possibly > > > worse) problem? > > > > In general yes, in specific no. > > For a generic iowrite function, I wouldn't use STP or Neon since it may > end up being used on emulated MMIO. Yes, my feeling too > BTW, for Neon, don't you need kernel_neon_begin/end()? This may have its > own overhead and also BUG_ON for different contexts. Again, not suitable > for a generic function. Yes, exactly right. > I can't think of any generic solution here, it may have to be a hack > specific to mlx5. We can also add add support for ST64B and have some > condition on system_supports_st64b() for future systems. Ok, we will send the hack > We can also add add support for ST64B and have some > condition on system_supports_st64b() for future systems. I have asked someone to work on the ST64B version so we can talk about that then.. > Even if we could handle virtualisation, I wonder whether > __iowrite64_copy() is the right function to implement 128-bit stores or > the larger 64-byte atomic stores. At least the comment for the generic > function suggests that it writes in 64-bit quantities. Some MMIO may > only handle such writes. A function like memcpy_toio() is more generic, > it doesn't imply any restrictions on the size of the writes (though I > think it guarantees natural alignment for the stores). IMHO the '64' here refers to the alignment and multiple, not necessarily the transfer granule size. This could be clarified in the kdocs. Also, IIRC, there were few users and they were all doing WC stores which give large TLPs on the PCIe - meaning there is no size restriction issue. Last time around we didn't use memcpy_toio() because it has not requirement on alignment, requiring more checks and things which didn't see desirable. To use ST64B under iowrite64 we only have to check if the destination is 64 byte aligned. Jason