* [PATCH net-next-2.6] sfc: Use write-combining to reduce TX latency
2011-03-07 23:23 pull request: sfc-next-2.6 2011-03-07 Ben Hutchings
@ 2011-03-07 23:25 ` Ben Hutchings
2011-03-08 19:33 ` pull request: sfc-next-2.6 2011-03-07 David Miller
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From: Ben Hutchings @ 2011-03-07 23:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: David Miller; +Cc: netdev, linux-net-drivers
Based on work by Neil Turton <nturton@solarflare.com> and
Kieran Mansley <kmansley@solarflare.com>.
The BIU has now been verified to handle 3- and 4-dword writes within a
single 128-bit register correctly. This means we can enable write-
combining and only insert write barriers between writes to distinct
registers.
This has been observed to save about 0.5 us when pushing a TX
descriptor to an empty TX queue.
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
---
drivers/net/sfc/efx.c | 4 ++--
drivers/net/sfc/io.h | 13 +++++++++----
drivers/net/sfc/mcdi.c | 9 +++++----
3 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/sfc/efx.c b/drivers/net/sfc/efx.c
index d563049..b8bd936 100644
--- a/drivers/net/sfc/efx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/sfc/efx.c
@@ -1104,8 +1104,8 @@ static int efx_init_io(struct efx_nic *efx)
rc = -EIO;
goto fail3;
}
- efx->membase = ioremap_nocache(efx->membase_phys,
- efx->type->mem_map_size);
+ efx->membase = ioremap_wc(efx->membase_phys,
+ efx->type->mem_map_size);
if (!efx->membase) {
netif_err(efx, probe, efx->net_dev,
"could not map memory BAR at %llx+%x\n",
diff --git a/drivers/net/sfc/io.h b/drivers/net/sfc/io.h
index dc45110..d9d8c2e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/sfc/io.h
+++ b/drivers/net/sfc/io.h
@@ -48,9 +48,9 @@
* replacing the low 96 bits with zero does not affect functionality.
* - If the host writes to the last dword address of such a register
* (i.e. the high 32 bits) the underlying register will always be
- * written. If the collector does not hold values for the low 96
- * bits of the register, they will be written as zero. Writing to
- * the last qword does not have this effect and must not be done.
+ * written. If the collector and the current write together do not
+ * provide values for all 128 bits of the register, the low 96 bits
+ * will be written as zero.
* - If the host writes to the address of any other part of such a
* register while the collector already holds values for some other
* register, the write is discarded and the collector maintains its
@@ -103,6 +103,7 @@ static inline void efx_writeo(struct efx_nic *efx, efx_oword_t *value,
_efx_writed(efx, value->u32[2], reg + 8);
_efx_writed(efx, value->u32[3], reg + 12);
#endif
+ wmb();
mmiowb();
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&efx->biu_lock, flags);
}
@@ -125,6 +126,7 @@ static inline void efx_sram_writeq(struct efx_nic *efx, void __iomem *membase,
__raw_writel((__force u32)value->u32[0], membase + addr);
__raw_writel((__force u32)value->u32[1], membase + addr + 4);
#endif
+ wmb();
mmiowb();
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&efx->biu_lock, flags);
}
@@ -139,6 +141,7 @@ static inline void efx_writed(struct efx_nic *efx, efx_dword_t *value,
/* No lock required */
_efx_writed(efx, value->u32[0], reg);
+ wmb();
}
/* Read a 128-bit CSR, locking as appropriate. */
@@ -237,12 +240,14 @@ static inline void _efx_writeo_page(struct efx_nic *efx, efx_oword_t *value,
#ifdef EFX_USE_QWORD_IO
_efx_writeq(efx, value->u64[0], reg + 0);
+ _efx_writeq(efx, value->u64[1], reg + 8);
#else
_efx_writed(efx, value->u32[0], reg + 0);
_efx_writed(efx, value->u32[1], reg + 4);
-#endif
_efx_writed(efx, value->u32[2], reg + 8);
_efx_writed(efx, value->u32[3], reg + 12);
+#endif
+ wmb();
}
#define efx_writeo_page(efx, value, reg, page) \
_efx_writeo_page(efx, value, \
diff --git a/drivers/net/sfc/mcdi.c b/drivers/net/sfc/mcdi.c
index 8bba895..5e118f0 100644
--- a/drivers/net/sfc/mcdi.c
+++ b/drivers/net/sfc/mcdi.c
@@ -94,14 +94,15 @@ static void efx_mcdi_copyin(struct efx_nic *efx, unsigned cmd,
efx_writed(efx, &hdr, pdu);
- for (i = 0; i < inlen; i += 4)
+ for (i = 0; i < inlen; i += 4) {
_efx_writed(efx, *((__le32 *)(inbuf + i)), pdu + 4 + i);
-
- /* Ensure the payload is written out before the header */
- wmb();
+ /* use wmb() within loop to inhibit write combining */
+ wmb();
+ }
/* ring the doorbell with a distinctive value */
_efx_writed(efx, (__force __le32) 0x45789abc, doorbell);
+ wmb();
}
static void efx_mcdi_copyout(struct efx_nic *efx, u8 *outbuf, size_t outlen)
--
1.7.4
--
Ben Hutchings, Senior Software Engineer, Solarflare Communications
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