From: Honnappa Nagarahalli <Honnappa.Nagarahalli@arm.com>
To: "jerinj@marvell.com" <jerinj@marvell.com>,
"Gavin Hu (Arm Technology China)" <Gavin.Hu@arm.com>,
"yskoh@mellanox.com" <yskoh@mellanox.com>
Cc: "russell@mellanox.com" <russell@mellanox.com>,
"mrosenbluth@mellanox.com" <mrosenbluth@mellanox.com>,
"dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>, nd <nd@arm.com>, nd <nd@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [EXT] Default cacheline size for ARM
Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2019 22:47:35 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AM6PR08MB3672E80CA3555036263E65A5988F0@AM6PR08MB3672.eurprd08.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0542f8c8cc035433fa4e13cfc23e693f241d5125.camel@marvell.com>
>
> On Fri, 2019-01-04 at 19:59 +0000, Yongseok Koh wrote:
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------
> > ---
> > Hi,
> >
> > The cacheline size (RTE_CACHE_LINE_SIZE) for ARM CPUs is set to be
> > 128B by default. Mellanox's BlueField is an ARM CPU having Cortex-A72
> > and its CL size is 64B.
Just wondering how many devices are out there with 128B cache line? I also have not heard about any future devices with 128B cache line. If the majority is 64B, why not keep 64B as the default?
> >
> > I can add config/defconfig_arm64-bluefield-linuxapp-gcc for legacy
> > build anyway.
> >
>
> Makes sense.
>
> > For the meson build, I know it parses the Main ID register to figure
> > out Implementor ID and Part Number. However, Mellanox doesn't program
> > our own ID yet but we set the Part Number as 0xd08 (A72).
> > According to my folks, ARM's A53, A57, A72, and A73 designs all have
> > 64B CL. If that's true, can I push a patch to make the change?
>
> Yes. Broadcom Stingray has the same situation i.e Use flags_generic,
> machine_args_generic
>
This will solve only the native compilation issue. It will not address distro compilation (may be this is not your goal?).
> >
> > Please comment.
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Yongseok
> >
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-01-05 22:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-01-04 19:59 [dpdk-dev] " Yongseok Koh
2019-01-05 5:14 ` [dpdk-dev] [EXT] " Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran
2019-01-05 22:47 ` Honnappa Nagarahalli [this message]
2019-01-06 7:56 ` Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran
2019-01-14 7:47 ` Honnappa Nagarahalli
2019-01-14 8:05 ` Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran
2019-01-16 1:57 ` Honnappa Nagarahalli
2019-01-18 5:50 ` Honnappa Nagarahalli
2019-01-23 9:05 ` Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran
2019-01-23 16:28 ` Honnappa Nagarahalli
2019-01-28 12:56 ` Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran
2019-01-31 18:09 ` Honnappa Nagarahalli
2019-02-01 17:16 ` Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran
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