From: David Christensen <drc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Omkar Maslekar <omkar.maslekar@intel.com>, dev@dpdk.org
Cc: bruce.richardson@intel.com, ciara.loftus@intel.com,
jerinj@marvell.com, ruifeng.wang@arm.com,
honnappa.nagarahalli@arm.com
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6] eal: add cache-line demote support
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2020 12:31:59 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0f6c65bd-901b-cc0f-1510-0fd08227f8c4@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1602497980-20680-2-git-send-email-omkar.maslekar@intel.com>
On 10/12/20 3:19 AM, Omkar Maslekar wrote:
> rte_cldemote is similar to a prefetch hint - in reverse. cldemote(addr)
> enables software to hint to hardware that line is likely to be shared.
> Useful in core-to-core communications where cache-line is likely to be
> shared. ARM and PPC implementation is provided with NOP and can be added
> if any equivalent instructions could be used for implementation on those
> architectures.
>
> Signed-off-by: Omkar Maslekar <omkar.maslekar@intel.com>
> Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
>
> ---
> v6: marked rte_cldemote as experimental
> added rte_cldemote call in existing app/test_prefetch.c
>
> v5: documentation updated
> fixed formatting issue in release notes
> added Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
> *
> v4: updated bold text for title and fixed margin in release notes
> *
> v3: fixed warning regarding whitespace
> *
> v2: documentation updated
> ---
> ---
> app/test/test_prefetch.c | 4 ++++
> doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_11.rst | 7 +++++++
> lib/librte_eal/arm/include/rte_prefetch_32.h | 8 ++++++++
> lib/librte_eal/arm/include/rte_prefetch_64.h | 8 ++++++++
> lib/librte_eal/include/generic/rte_prefetch.h | 16 ++++++++++++++++
> lib/librte_eal/ppc/include/rte_prefetch.h | 8 ++++++++
> lib/librte_eal/x86/include/rte_prefetch.h | 12 ++++++++++++
> 7 files changed, 63 insertions(+)
...snip...
> diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/ppc/include/rte_prefetch.h b/lib/librte_eal/ppc/include/rte_prefetch.h
> index 9ba07c8..9630227 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_eal/ppc/include/rte_prefetch.h
> +++ b/lib/librte_eal/ppc/include/rte_prefetch.h
> @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
> #endif
>
> #include <rte_common.h>
> +#include <rte_compat.h>
> #include "generic/rte_prefetch.h"
>
> static inline void rte_prefetch0(const volatile void *p)
> @@ -34,6 +35,13 @@ static inline void rte_prefetch_non_temporal(const volatile void *p)
> rte_prefetch0(p);
> }
>
> +static inline void
> +__rte_experimental
> +rte_cldemote(const volatile void *p)
> +{
> + RTE_SET_USED(p);
> +}
> +
> #ifdef __cplusplus
> }
> #endif
Don't see an equivalent operation in the 3.1 ISA for POWER processors,
so NOP is the right implementation.
Acked-by: David Christensen <drc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-12 19:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-10 1:16 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] EAL: An addition of cache line demote (CLDEMOTE) in rte_prefetch.h Omkar Maslekar
2020-09-10 1:16 ` Omkar Maslekar
2020-09-10 8:55 ` Bruce Richardson
2020-09-10 23:30 ` Maslekar, Omkar
2020-09-10 22:04 ` David Christensen
2020-09-11 16:51 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] " Omkar Maslekar
2020-09-11 16:51 ` Omkar Maslekar
2020-09-11 21:22 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] " Omkar Maslekar
2020-09-11 21:22 ` Omkar Maslekar
2020-09-22 1:59 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4] eal: add cache-line demote support Omkar Maslekar
2020-09-22 1:59 ` Omkar Maslekar
2020-09-22 8:28 ` Bruce Richardson
2020-09-22 21:53 ` Maslekar, Omkar
2020-10-01 0:28 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5] " Omkar Maslekar
2020-10-01 0:28 ` Omkar Maslekar
2020-10-08 7:09 ` David Marchand
2020-10-08 9:02 ` Bruce Richardson
2020-10-12 9:41 ` David Marchand
2020-10-08 13:12 ` Jerin Jacob
2020-10-12 10:19 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6] " Omkar Maslekar
2020-10-12 10:19 ` Omkar Maslekar
2020-10-12 19:31 ` David Christensen [this message]
2020-10-13 2:59 ` Ruifeng Wang
2020-10-13 16:20 ` Bruce Richardson
2020-10-14 1:55 ` Ruifeng Wang
2020-10-14 7:14 ` David Marchand
2020-10-14 7:51 ` Ruifeng Wang
2020-10-13 9:43 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7] " Omkar Maslekar
2020-10-13 9:43 ` Omkar Maslekar
2020-10-14 7:24 ` Ruifeng Wang
2020-10-15 8:01 ` David Marchand
2020-10-15 14:41 ` Maslekar, Omkar
2020-10-15 20:32 ` David Marchand
2020-10-15 15:18 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v8] " Omkar Maslekar
2020-10-15 15:18 ` Omkar Maslekar
2020-10-15 23:20 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v9] " Omkar Maslekar
2020-10-15 23:20 ` Omkar Maslekar
2020-10-16 12:14 ` David Marchand
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