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Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2015 22:30:05 +0200 From: christophe leroy <christophe.leroy@....fr> To: Scott Wood <scottwood@...escale.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>, Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>, Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 01/25] powerpc/8xx: Save r3 all the time in DTLB miss handler Le 06/10/2015 18:46, Scott Wood a écrit : > On Tue, 2015-10-06 at 15:35 +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote: >> Le 29/09/2015 00:07, Scott Wood a écrit : >>> On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 06:50:29PM +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote: >>>> We are spending between 40 and 160 cycles with a mean of 65 cycles in >>>> the TLB handling routines (measured with mftbl) so make it more >>>> simple althought it adds one instruction. >>>> >>>> Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@....fr> >>> Does this just make it simpler or does it make it faster? What is the >>> performance impact? Is the performance impact seen with or without >>> CONFIG_8xx_CPU6 enabled? Without it, it looks like you're adding an >>> mtspr/mfspr combo in order to replace one mfspr. >>> >>> >> The performance impact is not noticeable. Theoritically it adds 1 cycle >> on a mean of 65 cycles, that is 1.5%. Even in the worst case where we >> spend around 10% of the time in TLB handling exceptions, that represents >> only 0.15% of the total CPU time. So that's almost nothing. >> Behind the fact to get in simpler, the main reason is because I need a >> third register for the following patch in the set, otherwise I would >> spend a more time saving and restoring CR several times. > FWIW, the added instruction is an SPR access and I doubt that's only one > cycle. > > According to the mpc885 reference manual (table 9-1), Instruction Execution Timing for "Move to: mtspr, mtcrf, mtmsr, mcrxr except mtspr to LR and CTR and to SPRs external to the core" is "serialize + 1 cycle". Taking into account we preeceeding instructions are also 'mtspr', we are already serialized, so it is only one cycle I believe. Am I interpreting it wrong ? Christophe --- L'absence de virus dans ce courrier électronique a été vérifiée par le logiciel antivirus Avast. https://www.avast.com/antivirus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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