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From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
To: benh@kernel.crashing.org, paulus@samba.org, mpe@ellerman.id.au,
	amodra@gmail.com, torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] powerpc: Enable DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS on ppc64le
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 09:40:21 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1411083621-12064-4-git-send-email-anton@samba.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1411083621-12064-1-git-send-email-anton@samba.org>

Enable on DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS on ppc64le. It should work on
ppc64 and ppc32 but we need to do some testing first.

A somewhat reasonable testcase used to show the performance
improvement - a repeated stat of a 33 byte filename that
doesn't exist:

 #include <sys/types.h>
 #include <sys/stat.h>
 #include <unistd.h>

 #define ITERATIONS 10000000

 #define PATH "123456781234567812345678123456781"

 int main(void)
 {
 	unsigned long i;
 	struct stat buf;

 	for (i = 0; i < ITERATIONS; i++)
 		stat(PATH, &buf);

 	return 0;
 }

runs 27% faster on POWER8.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
---
 arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
index 90fe77a..7992f35 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
@@ -148,6 +148,7 @@ config PPC
 	select HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
 	select ARCH_SUPPORTS_ATOMIC_RMW
 	select HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI if PPC64
+	select DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS if PPC64 && CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN
 
 config GENERIC_CSUM
 	def_bool CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN
-- 
1.9.1

      parent reply	other threads:[~2014-09-18 23:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-18 23:40 [PATCH 0/3] DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS support for ppc64le Anton Blanchard
2014-09-18 23:40 ` [PATCH 1/3] powerpc: Implement load_unaligned_zeropad Anton Blanchard
2014-09-18 23:40 ` [PATCH 2/3] powerpc: ppc64le optimised word at a time Anton Blanchard
2014-09-18 23:40 ` Anton Blanchard [this message]

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