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From: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
To: Daniel Gregory <daniel.gregory@bytedance.com>
Cc: Stanislaw Kardach <stanislaw.kardach@gmail.com>,
	 Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>,
	Tyler Retzlaff <roretzla@linux.microsoft.com>,
	dev@dpdk.org,  Liang Ma <liangma@liangbit.com>,
	Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@bytedance.com>,
	 Sachin Saxena <sachin.saxena@nxp.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] eal/riscv: implement prefetch using zicbop
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2024 19:22:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJFAV8zatWiYQoe4kETcM61=OS1k=QaPRsNjYSYDspKC+voiQw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240530171948.19763-1-daniel.gregory@bytedance.com>

Hello,

On Thu, May 30, 2024 at 7:21 PM Daniel Gregory
<daniel.gregory@bytedance.com> wrote:
>
> Instructions from RISC-V's Zicbop extension can be used to implement the
> rte_prefetch* family of functions. On modern versions of GCC (13.1.0+)
> and Clang (17.0.1+), these are emitted by __builtin_prefetch() when the
> extension is present.
>
> In order to support older compiler versions, this patchset manually
> emits these instructions using inline assembly. To do this, I have added
> a new flag, RTE_PREFETCH_WRITE_ARCH_DEFINED, that
> (similarly to RTE_WAIT_UNTIL_EQUAL_ARCH_DEFINED) hides the generic
> implementation of rte_prefetch*_write.
>
> I am still in the process of acquiring hardware that supports this
> extension, so I haven't tested how this affects performance yet.

Let's hope you get such hardware by the next release.
We will need reviews too.

CC: Sachin.


-- 
David Marchand


      parent reply	other threads:[~2024-07-12 17:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-05-30 17:19 Daniel Gregory
2024-05-30 17:19 ` [PATCH 1/2] eal: add flag to hide generic prefetch_write Daniel Gregory
2024-05-30 17:19 ` [PATCH 2/2] eal/riscv: add support for zicbop extension Daniel Gregory
2024-05-31  8:49   ` Daniel Gregory
2024-10-05  1:31   ` Stephen Hemminger
2024-10-07  7:48   ` Stanisław Kardach
2024-07-12 17:22 ` David Marchand [this message]

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