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From: "Ananyev, Konstantin" <konstantin.ananyev@intel.com>
To: "Richardson, Bruce" <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2] eal/x86: Use lock-prefixed instructions to reduce cost of rte_smp_mb()
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 17:30:08 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2601191342CEEE43887BDE71AB9772585FAC8193@irsmsx105.ger.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171211171121.GB2232@bricha3-MOBL3.ger.corp.intel.com>

Hi Bruce,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richardson, Bruce
> Sent: Monday, December 11, 2017 5:11 PM
> To: Ananyev, Konstantin <konstantin.ananyev@intel.com>
> Cc: dev@dpdk.org
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2] eal/x86: Use lock-prefixed instructions to reduce cost of rte_smp_mb()
> 
> On Fri, Dec 01, 2017 at 11:12:51AM +0000, Konstantin Ananyev wrote:
> > On x86 it  is possible to use lock-prefixed instructions to get
> > the similar effect as mfence.
> > As pointed by Java guys, on most modern HW that gives a better
> > performance than using mfence:
> > https://shipilev.net/blog/2014/on-the-fence-with-dependencies/
> > That patch adopts that technique for rte_smp_mb() implementation.
> > On BDW 2.2 mb_autotest on single lcore reports 2X cycle reduction,
> > i.e. from ~110 to ~55 cycles per operation.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Konstantin Ananyev <konstantin.ananyev@intel.com>
> > ---
> >  .../common/include/arch/x86/rte_atomic.h           | 45 +++++++++++++++++++++-
> >  1 file changed, 43 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> <snip>
> > + * As pointed by Java guys, that makes possible to use lock-prefixed
> > + * instructions to get the same effect as mfence and on most modern HW
> > + * that gives a better perfomarnce than using mfence:
> > + * https://shipilev.net/blog/2014/on-the-fence-with-dependencies/
> > + * So below we use that technique for rte_smp_mb() implementation.
> > + */
> > +
> > +#ifdef RTE_ARCH_I686
> > +#define	RTE_SP	RTE_STR(esp)
> > +#else
> > +#define	RTE_SP	RTE_STR(rsp)
> > +#endif
> > +
> > +#define RTE_MB_DUMMY_MEMP	"-128(%%" RTE_SP ")"
> > +
> > +static __rte_always_inline void
> > +rte_smp_mb(void)
> > +{
> > +	asm volatile("lock addl $0," RTE_MB_DUMMY_MEMP "; " ::: "memory");
> > +}
> 
> Rather than #defining RTE_SP and RTE_MB_DUMMY_MEMP, why not just put the
> #ifdef into the rte_smp_mb itself and have two asm volatile lines with
> hard-coded register names in them? It would be shorter and I think a lot
> easier to read.

Fine by me.
Any other thoughts from anyone till I submit v2?
Konstantin

  reply	other threads:[~2017-12-11 17:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-01 11:12 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/2] test/test: introduce new test-case for rte_smp_mb() Konstantin Ananyev
2017-12-01 11:12 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2] eal/x86: Use lock-prefixed instructions to reduce cost of rte_smp_mb() Konstantin Ananyev
2017-12-01 18:04   ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-12-01 23:08     ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2018-03-08 21:15       ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-12-11 17:11   ` Bruce Richardson
2017-12-11 17:30     ` Ananyev, Konstantin [this message]
2017-12-18 15:34   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/2] eal/x86: Optimize rte_smp_mb() and create a new test case for it Konstantin Ananyev
2017-12-18 15:34   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/2] test/test: introduce new test-case for rte_smp_mb() Konstantin Ananyev
2018-01-12 17:23     ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-01-12 17:58       ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2018-01-13 13:54     ` Wiles, Keith
2018-01-13 13:54     ` Wiles, Keith
2018-01-15 15:04     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/2] eal/x86: Optimize rte_smp_mb() and create a new test case for it Konstantin Ananyev
2018-01-15 15:04     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/2] test/test: introduce new test-case for rte_smp_mb() Konstantin Ananyev
2018-01-16  0:16       ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-01-15 15:04     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/2] eal/x86: Use lock-prefixed instructions to reduce cost of rte_smp_mb() Konstantin Ananyev
2018-01-15 15:09       ` Konstantin Ananyev
     [not found]         ` <8b05f533-d146-7f97-48f4-82ddcfc3613b@redhat.com>
2018-01-16  1:54           ` [dpdk-dev] Fwd: " Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-01-29  9:29             ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2018-01-29 17:29               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-01-29 15:47         ` [dpdk-dev] " Thomas Monjalon
2018-01-30 19:33           ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-12-18 15:34   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 " Konstantin Ananyev
2017-12-18 15:46     ` Bruce Richardson
2017-12-11 17:08 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/2] test/test: introduce new test-case for rte_smp_mb() Bruce Richardson

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