summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/arch/x86
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorRoss Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>2015-08-27 19:14:20 (GMT)
committerDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>2015-08-27 23:38:28 (GMT)
commit67a3e8fe90156d41cd480d3dfbb40f3bc007c262 (patch)
treefcd0fa657c6424ba874e46dfc5349cb55f630f6b /arch/x86
parente2e05394e4a3420dab96f728df4531893494e15d (diff)
downloadlinux-67a3e8fe90156d41cd480d3dfbb40f3bc007c262.tar.xz
nd_blk: change aperture mapping from WC to WB
This should result in a pretty sizeable performance gain for reads. For rough comparison I did some simple read testing using PMEM to compare reads of write combining (WC) mappings vs write-back (WB). This was done on a random lab machine. PMEM reads from a write combining mapping: # dd of=/dev/null if=/dev/pmem0 bs=4096 count=100000 100000+0 records in 100000+0 records out 409600000 bytes (410 MB) copied, 9.2855 s, 44.1 MB/s PMEM reads from a write-back mapping: # dd of=/dev/null if=/dev/pmem0 bs=4096 count=1000000 1000000+0 records in 1000000+0 records out 4096000000 bytes (4.1 GB) copied, 3.44034 s, 1.2 GB/s To be able to safely support a write-back aperture I needed to add support for the "read flush" _DSM flag, as outlined in the DSM spec: http://pmem.io/documents/NVDIMM_DSM_Interface_Example.pdf This flag tells the ND BLK driver that it needs to flush the cache lines associated with the aperture after the aperture is moved but before any new data is read. This ensures that any stale cache lines from the previous contents of the aperture will be discarded from the processor cache, and the new data will be read properly from the DIMM. We know that the cache lines are clean and will be discarded without any writeback because either a) the previous aperture operation was a read, and we never modified the contents of the aperture, or b) the previous aperture operation was a write and we must have written back the dirtied contents of the aperture to the DIMM before the I/O was completed. In order to add support for the "read flush" flag I needed to add a generic routine to invalidate cache lines, mmio_flush_range(). This is protected by the ARCH_HAS_MMIO_FLUSH Kconfig variable, and is currently only supported on x86. Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/Kconfig1
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/include/asm/cacheflush.h2
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/include/asm/io.h2
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/include/asm/pmem.h2
4 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index b3a1a5d..5d4980e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ config X86
select ARCH_HAS_FAST_MULTIPLIER
select ARCH_HAS_GCOV_PROFILE_ALL
select ARCH_HAS_PMEM_API
+ select ARCH_HAS_MMIO_FLUSH
select ARCH_HAS_SG_CHAIN
select ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
select ARCH_MIGHT_HAVE_ACPI_PDC if ACPI
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/cacheflush.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/cacheflush.h
index 471418a..e63aa38 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/cacheflush.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/cacheflush.h
@@ -89,6 +89,8 @@ int set_pages_rw(struct page *page, int numpages);
void clflush_cache_range(void *addr, unsigned int size);
+#define mmio_flush_range(addr, size) clflush_cache_range(addr, size)
+
#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA
void mark_rodata_ro(void);
extern const int rodata_test_data;
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/io.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/io.h
index d241fbd..83ec9b1 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/io.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/io.h
@@ -248,8 +248,6 @@ static inline void flush_write_buffers(void)
#endif
}
-#define ARCH_MEMREMAP_PMEM MEMREMAP_WB
-
#endif /* __KERNEL__ */
extern void native_io_delay(void);
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/pmem.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/pmem.h
index a3a0df6..bb026c5 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/pmem.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/pmem.h
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@
#include <asm/cpufeature.h>
#include <asm/special_insns.h>
+#define ARCH_MEMREMAP_PMEM MEMREMAP_WB
+
#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_PMEM_API
/**
* arch_memcpy_to_pmem - copy data to persistent memory