Re: [dpdk-dev] [EXT] [PATCH v2 1/3] rwlock: reimplement with __atomic builtins

["Joyce Kong (Arm Technology China)" <Joyce.Kong@arm.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran <jerinj@marvell.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2019 2:09 AM
> To: Joyce Kong (Arm Technology China) <Joyce.Kong@arm.com>;
> dev@dpdk.org
> Cc: chaozhu@linux.vnet.ibm.com; nd <nd@arm.com>;
> bruce.richardson@intel.com; thomas@monjalon.net;
> hemant.agrawal@nxp.com; stable@dpdk.org; Honnappa Nagarahalli
> <Honnappa.Nagarahalli@arm.com>; Gavin Hu (Arm Technology China)
> <Gavin.Hu@arm.com>
> Subject: Re: [EXT] [PATCH v2 1/3] rwlock: reimplement with __atomic builtins
> 
> On Tue, 2019-01-15 at 21:12 +0800, Joyce Kong wrote:
> > From: Gavin Hu <gavin.hu@arm.com>
> >
> > The __sync builtin based implementation generates full memory barriers
> > ('dmb ish') on Arm platforms. Using C11 atomic builtins to generate
> > one way barriers.
> >
> > Here is the assembly code of __sync_compare_and_swap builtin.
> > __sync_bool_compare_and_swap(dst, exp, src);
> >    0x000000000090f1b0 <+16>:    e0 07 40 f9 ldr x0, [sp, #8]
> >    0x000000000090f1b4 <+20>:    e1 0f 40 79 ldrh    w1, [sp, #6]
> >    0x000000000090f1b8 <+24>:    e2 0b 40 79 ldrh    w2, [sp, #4]
> >    0x000000000090f1bc <+28>:    21 3c 00 12 and w1, w1, #0xffff
> >    0x000000000090f1c0 <+32>:    03 7c 5f 48 ldxrh   w3, [x0]
> >    0x000000000090f1c4 <+36>:    7f 00 01 6b cmp w3, w1
> >    0x000000000090f1c8 <+40>:    61 00 00 54 b.ne    0x90f1d4
> > <rte_atomic16_cmpset+52>  // b.any
> >    0x000000000090f1cc <+44>:    02 fc 04 48 stlxrh  w4, w2, [x0]
> >    0x000000000090f1d0 <+48>:    84 ff ff 35 cbnz    w4, 0x90f1c0
> > <rte_atomic16_cmpset+32>
> >    0x000000000090f1d4 <+52>:    bf 3b 03 d5 dmb ish
> >    0x000000000090f1d8 <+56>:    e0 17 9f 1a cset    w0, eq  // eq =
> > none
> >
> > Fixes: af75078fece3 ("first public release")
> > Cc: stable@dpdk.org
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Gavin Hu <gavin.hu@arm.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Honnappa Nagarahalli <honnappa.nagarahalli@arm.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Ola Liljedahl <ola.liljedahl@arm.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Joyce Kong <joyce.kong@arm.com>
> > Tested-by: Joyce Kong <joyce.kong@arm.com>
> > ---
> 
> Nit:
> Fix following git-checklog.sh issue
> 
> Wrong headline format:
> 	rwlock: reimplement with __atomic builtins
> 
Has fixed format error in v3.

> With above fix:
> Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <jerinj@marvell.com>
> 
> Performance on octeontx2: +88% improvement with this patch.