linux/arch/sparc
David S. Miller 9f825962ef sparc64: Niagara-4 bzero/memset, plus use MRU stores in page copy.
This adds optimized memset/bzero/page-clear routines for Niagara-4.

We basically can do what powerpc has been able to do for a decade (via
the "dcbz" instruction), which is use cache line clearing stores for
bzero and memsets with a 'c' argument of zero.

As long as we make the cache initializing store to each 32-byte
subblock of the L2 cache line, it works.

As with other Niagara-4 optimized routines, the key is to make sure to
avoid any usage of the %asi register, as reads and writes to it cost
at least 50 cycles.

For the user clear cases, we don't use these new routines, we use the
Niagara-1 variants instead.  Those have to use %asi in an unavoidable
way.

A Niagara-4 8K page clear costs just under 600 cycles.

Add definitions of the MRU variants of the cache initializing store
ASIs.  By default, cache initializing stores install the line as Least
Recently Used.  If we know we're going to use the data immediately
(which is true for page copies and clears) we can use the Most
Recently Used variant, to decrease the likelyhood of the lines being
evicted before they get used.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-10-05 13:45:26 -07:00
..
boot sparc32: drop build time btfixup patching 2012-05-14 14:05:10 -07:00
configs perf: Remove PERF_COUNTERS config option 2012-04-26 13:52:52 +02:00
crypto sparc64: Fix function argument comment in camellia_sparc64_key_expand asm. 2012-09-21 12:04:51 -07:00
include sparc64: Niagara-4 bzero/memset, plus use MRU stores in page copy. 2012-10-05 13:45:26 -07:00
kernel sparc64: Niagara-4 bzero/memset, plus use MRU stores in page copy. 2012-10-05 13:45:26 -07:00
lib sparc64: Niagara-4 bzero/memset, plus use MRU stores in page copy. 2012-10-05 13:45:26 -07:00
math-emu sparc64: Fix several bugs in quad floating point emulation. 2012-05-25 00:31:56 -07:00
mm sparc: fix format string argument for prom_printf() 2012-10-02 23:20:34 -04:00
net sparc: bpf_jit_comp: add XOR instruction for BPF JIT JIT 2012-09-27 18:04:35 -04:00
oprofile
prom sparc32: Remove superfluous extern declarations for prom_*() functions 2012-06-27 01:27:45 -07:00
Kbuild sparc64: Add SHA1 driver making use of the 'sha1' instruction. 2012-08-20 15:08:49 -07:00
Kconfig ipc: use Kconfig options for __ARCH_WANT_[COMPAT_]IPC_PARSE_VERSION 2012-07-30 17:25:21 -07:00
Kconfig.debug
Makefile Merge branch 'smp-hotplug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2012-05-21 19:43:57 -07:00