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* [PATCH 0 of 3] 32-bit MMIO copy routines, reworked
@ 2006-01-10 19:53 Bryan O'Sullivan
  2006-01-10 19:53 ` [PATCH 1 of 3] Introduce __raw_memcpy_toio32 Bryan O'Sullivan
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From: Bryan O'Sullivan @ 2006-01-10 19:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: akpm; +Cc: linux-kernel, hch, ak, rdreier

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After some more review comments from Roland, Andrew and Chris Hellwig,
here is a reworked set of 32-bit MMIO copy patches.

These use CONFIG_RAW_MEMCPY_IO to determine whether an arch should use
the generic __raw_memcpy_toio32 routine or its own specialised version.
We provide a specialised implementation for x86_64.

These patches should apply cleanly against current -git, and have been
tested on i386 and x86_64.

The patch series is as follows:

raw_memcpy_io.patch
  Introduce the generic MMIO 32-bit copy routine.

x86_64-memcpy32.patch
  Add memcpy32 routine to x86_64.

arch-specific-raw_memcpy_io.patch
  Get each arch to use generic memcpy_io code, except x86_64, which
  uses memcpy32.

Signed-off-by: Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@pathscale.com>

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* [PATCH 0 of 3] MMIO 32-bit copy routine, the final frontier
@ 2006-01-11 22:39 Bryan O'Sullivan
  2006-01-11 22:39 ` [PATCH 3 of 3] Add __raw_memcpy_toio32 to each arch Bryan O'Sullivan
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 17+ messages in thread
From: Bryan O'Sullivan @ 2006-01-11 22:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: akpm; +Cc: linux-kernel, hch, ak

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After yet more review comments from several people, here is a reworked
set of 32-bit MMIO copy patches.  This may even be the final set.

These define the generic __raw_memcpy_toio32 as a weak symbol, which
arches are free to override.  We provide a specialised implementation
for x86_64.

These patches should apply cleanly against current -git, and have been
tested on i386 and x86_64.

The patch series is as follows:

raw_memcpy_io.patch
  Introduce the generic MMIO 32-bit copy routine.

x86_64-memcpy32.patch
  Add memcpy32 routine to x86_64.

arch-specific-raw_memcpy_io.patch
  Get each arch to use generic memcpy_io code, except x86_64, which
  uses memcpy32.

Signed-off-by: Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@pathscale.com>

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* [PATCH 0 of 3] 32-bit MMIO copy routine
@ 2006-01-06 20:26 Bryan O'Sullivan
  2006-01-06 20:26 ` [PATCH 3 of 3] Add __raw_memcpy_toio32 to each arch Bryan O'Sullivan
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 17+ messages in thread
From: Bryan O'Sullivan @ 2006-01-06 20:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel

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Following some discussion with Roland, and patterned after the style
anointed by Linus last week, here is a new version of the 32-bit MMIO
copy routine needed by our InfiniPath device.

The name of the routine has changed from memcpy_toio32 to
__raw_memcpy_toio32.  This reflects the basic nature of the routine;
it dodes not guarantee the order in which writes are performed, nor does
it perform a memory barrier after it is done.

The reason for this is that our chip treats the first and last writes
to some MMIO regions specially; our driver performs those directly using
writel, and uses __raw_memcpy_toio32 for the bits in between.

Regarding the specialised x86_64 implementation, Andi Kleen asked me
to perform some measurements of its performance impact.  It makes a
difference of about 5% in performance on moderately large copies over
the HyperTransport bus, compared to the generic implementation.

	<b

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2006-01-11 23:46   ` Andrew Morton
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2006-01-12  0:21         ` Bryan O'Sullivan
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