From: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org, John David Anglin <dave.anglin@bell.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] parisc: Align locks for LWS syscalls to L1 cache size
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2015 00:18:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55E775B6.3040702@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1441229561.2259.18.camel@HansenPartnership.com>
On 02.09.2015 23:32, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-09-02 at 21:38 +0200, Helge Deller wrote:
>> Align the locks for the Light weight syscall (LWS) which is used for
>> atomic userspace operations (e.g. gcc atomic builtins) on L1 cache
>> boundaries. This should speed up LWS calls on PA20 systems.
>
> Is there any evidence for this? The architectural requirement for ldcw
> on which all this is based is pegged at 16 bytes. This implies that the
> burst width on PA88/89 may indeed be 128 bytes, but the coherence width
> for operations may still be 16 bytes. If that speculation is true,
> there's no speed at all gained by aligning ldcw to 128 bytes and all you
> do is waste space.
Sure, we'll have to measure timings here...
Helge
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-02 22:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-02 19:38 [PATCH] parisc: Align locks for LWS syscalls to L1 cache size Helge Deller
2015-09-02 19:46 ` John David Anglin
2015-09-02 20:29 ` Helge Deller
2015-09-05 21:48 ` Helge Deller
2015-09-07 20:51 ` Helge Deller
2015-09-02 21:32 ` James Bottomley
2015-09-02 22:18 ` Helge Deller [this message]
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