Re: [PATCH 1/1] prefetch result for ARM64 atomic ops

From: Pranith Kumar
Date: Mon Apr 14 2014 - 14:12:05 EST


On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 2:04 PM, Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Are there some benchmark comparison results
> you neglected to attach?

I was trying to get these ops to be similar to the 32 bit atomic ops which
all have prefetch. I did not see any reason why we shouldn't do the same
here. But no, no hard numbers yet. Send me a dev board please :)

>
>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/atomic.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/atomic.h
>> + prefetchw(&v->counter);
>
> Does this compile?
>

Argh, my mistake! I overlooked this. Please find fixed patch below:

Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@xxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/arm64/include/asm/atomic.h | 11 +++++++++++
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/atomic.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/atomic.h
index 0237f08..82271ee 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/atomic.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/atomic.h
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ static inline void atomic_add(int i, atomic_t *v)
unsigned long tmp;
int result;

+ prefetchw(&v->counter);
asm volatile("// atomic_add\n"
"1: ldxr %w0, %2\n"
" add %w0, %w0, %w3\n"
@@ -62,6 +63,7 @@ static inline int atomic_add_return(int i, atomic_t *v)
unsigned long tmp;
int result;

+ prefetchw(&v->counter);
asm volatile("// atomic_add_return\n"
"1: ldxr %w0, %2\n"
" add %w0, %w0, %w3\n"
@@ -80,6 +82,7 @@ static inline void atomic_sub(int i, atomic_t *v)
unsigned long tmp;
int result;

+ prefetchw(&v->counter);
asm volatile("// atomic_sub\n"
"1: ldxr %w0, %2\n"
" sub %w0, %w0, %w3\n"
@@ -94,6 +97,7 @@ static inline int atomic_sub_return(int i, atomic_t *v)
unsigned long tmp;
int result;

+ prefetchw(&v->counter);
asm volatile("// atomic_sub_return\n"
"1: ldxr %w0, %2\n"
" sub %w0, %w0, %w3\n"
@@ -113,6 +117,7 @@ static inline int atomic_cmpxchg(atomic_t *ptr,
int old, int new)
int oldval;

smp_mb();
+ prefetchw(&v->counter);

asm volatile("// atomic_cmpxchg\n"
"1: ldxr %w1, %2\n"
@@ -170,6 +175,7 @@ static inline void atomic64_add(u64 i, atomic64_t *v)
long result;
unsigned long tmp;

+ prefetchw(&v->counter);
asm volatile("// atomic64_add\n"
"1: ldxr %0, %2\n"
" add %0, %0, %3\n"
@@ -184,6 +190,7 @@ static inline long atomic64_add_return(long i,
atomic64_t *v)
long result;
unsigned long tmp;

+ prefetchw(&v->counter);
asm volatile("// atomic64_add_return\n"
"1: ldxr %0, %2\n"
" add %0, %0, %3\n"
@@ -202,6 +209,7 @@ static inline void atomic64_sub(u64 i, atomic64_t *v)
long result;
unsigned long tmp;

+ prefetchw(&v->counter);
asm volatile("// atomic64_sub\n"
"1: ldxr %0, %2\n"
" sub %0, %0, %3\n"
@@ -216,6 +224,7 @@ static inline long atomic64_sub_return(long i,
atomic64_t *v)
long result;
unsigned long tmp;

+ prefetchw(&v->counter);
asm volatile("// atomic64_sub_return\n"
"1: ldxr %0, %2\n"
" sub %0, %0, %3\n"
@@ -235,6 +244,7 @@ static inline long atomic64_cmpxchg(atomic64_t
*ptr, long old, long new)
unsigned long res;

smp_mb();
+ prefetchw(&v->counter);

asm volatile("// atomic64_cmpxchg\n"
"1: ldxr %1, %2\n"
@@ -258,6 +268,7 @@ static inline long atomic64_dec_if_positive(atomic64_t *v)
long result;
unsigned long tmp;

+ prefetchw(&v->counter);
asm volatile("// atomic64_dec_if_positive\n"
"1: ldxr %0, %2\n"
" subs %0, %0, #1\n"
--
1.9.1


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Pranith
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