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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>powerpc: Optimise per cpu accesses on 64bit</title>
<updated>2010-07-09T01:28:30+00:00</updated>
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<name>Anton Blanchard</name>
<email>anton@samba.org</email>
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<published>2010-05-31T18:45:11+00:00</published>
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Now we dynamically allocate the paca array, it takes an extra load
whenever we want to access another cpu's paca. One place we do that a lot
is per cpu variables. A simple example:

DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, vara);
unsigned long test4(int cpu)
{
	return per_cpu(vara, cpu);
}

This takes 4 loads, 5 if you include the actual load of the per cpu variable:

    ld r11,-32760(r30)  # load address of paca pointer
    ld r9,-32768(r30)   # load link address of percpu variable
    sldi r3,r29,9       # get offset into paca (each entry is 512 bytes)
    ld r0,0(r11)        # load paca pointer
    add r3,r0,r3        # paca + offset
    ld r11,64(r3)       # load paca[cpu].data_offset

    ldx r3,r9,r11       # load per cpu variable

If we remove the ppc64 specific per_cpu_offset(), we get the generic one
which indexes into a statically allocated array. This removes one load and
one add:

    ld r11,-32760(r30)  # load address of __per_cpu_offset
    ld r9,-32768(r30)   # load link address of percpu variable
    sldi r3,r29,3       # get offset into __per_cpu_offset (each entry 8 bytes)
    ldx r11,r11,r3      # load __per_cpu_offset[cpu]

    ldx r3,r9,r11       # load per cpu variable

Having all the offsets in one array also helps when iterating over a per cpu
variable across a number of cpus, such as in the scheduler. Before we would
need to load one paca cacheline when calculating each per cpu offset. Now we
have 16 (128 / sizeof(long)) per cpu offsets in each cacheline.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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Now we dynamically allocate the paca array, it takes an extra load
whenever we want to access another cpu's paca. One place we do that a lot
is per cpu variables. A simple example:

DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, vara);
unsigned long test4(int cpu)
{
	return per_cpu(vara, cpu);
}

This takes 4 loads, 5 if you include the actual load of the per cpu variable:

    ld r11,-32760(r30)  # load address of paca pointer
    ld r9,-32768(r30)   # load link address of percpu variable
    sldi r3,r29,9       # get offset into paca (each entry is 512 bytes)
    ld r0,0(r11)        # load paca pointer
    add r3,r0,r3        # paca + offset
    ld r11,64(r3)       # load paca[cpu].data_offset

    ldx r3,r9,r11       # load per cpu variable

If we remove the ppc64 specific per_cpu_offset(), we get the generic one
which indexes into a statically allocated array. This removes one load and
one add:

    ld r11,-32760(r30)  # load address of __per_cpu_offset
    ld r9,-32768(r30)   # load link address of percpu variable
    sldi r3,r29,3       # get offset into __per_cpu_offset (each entry 8 bytes)
    ldx r11,r11,r3      # load __per_cpu_offset[cpu]

    ldx r3,r9,r11       # load per cpu variable

Having all the offsets in one array also helps when iterating over a per cpu
variable across a number of cpus, such as in the scheduler. Before we would
need to load one paca cacheline when calculating each per cpu offset. Now we
have 16 (128 / sizeof(long)) per cpu offsets in each cacheline.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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<title>powerpc: Move include files to arch/powerpc/include/asm</title>
<updated>2008-08-04T02:02:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephen Rothwell</name>
<email>sfr@canb.auug.org.au</email>
</author>
<published>2008-08-01T05:20:30+00:00</published>
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from include/asm-powerpc.  This is the result of a

mkdir arch/powerpc/include/asm
git mv include/asm-powerpc/* arch/powerpc/include/asm

Followed by a few documentation/comment fixups and a couple of places
where &lt;asm-powepc/...&gt; was being used explicitly.  Of the latter only
one was outside the arch code and it is a driver only built for powerpc.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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from include/asm-powerpc.  This is the result of a

mkdir arch/powerpc/include/asm
git mv include/asm-powerpc/* arch/powerpc/include/asm

Followed by a few documentation/comment fixups and a couple of places
where &lt;asm-powepc/...&gt; was being used explicitly.  Of the latter only
one was outside the arch code and it is a driver only built for powerpc.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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