linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 5/6] i.MX: system.c: Tweak prefetch settings for performance

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Message-Id: <1465954193-5894-6-git-send-email-andrew.smirnov@gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 14 Jun 2016 18:29:52 -0700
From:	Andrey Smirnov <andrew.smirnov@...il.com>
To:	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Cc:	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Shawn Guo <shawnguo@...nel.org>,
	Sascha Hauer <kernel@...gutronix.de>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrey Smirnov <andrew.smirnov@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 5/6] i.MX: system.c: Tweak prefetch settings for performance

Update Prefetch Control Register settings to match that of Freescale's
Linux tree. As the commit e3addf1b773964eac7f797e8538c69481be4279c
states (author Nitin Garg):

"... set Prefetch offset to 15, since it improves memcpy performance by
35%. Don't enable Incr double Linefill enable since it adversely affects
memcpy performance by about 32MB/s and reads by 90MB/s. Tested with 4K
to 16MB sized src and dst aligned buffer..."

Those results are also corroborated by our own testing.

Tested-by: Chris Healy <cphealy@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrey Smirnov <andrew.smirnov@...il.com>
---
 arch/arm/mach-imx/system.c | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-imx/system.c b/arch/arm/mach-imx/system.c
index f0a9787..9ea01e3 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mach-imx/system.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mach-imx/system.c
@@ -111,8 +111,12 @@ void __init imx_init_l2cache(void)
 		val = readl_relaxed(l2x0_base + L310_PREFETCH_CTRL);
 		val |=  L310_PREFETCH_CTRL_DBL_LINEFILL |
 		        L310_PREFETCH_CTRL_INSTR_PREFETCH |
-			L310_PREFETCH_CTRL_DATA_PREFETCH |
-			L310_PREFETCH_CTRL_DBL_LINEFILL_INCR;
+			L310_PREFETCH_CTRL_DATA_PREFETCH;
+
+		/* Set perfetch offset to improve performance */
+		val &= ~L310_PREFETCH_CTRL_OFFSET_MASK;
+		val |= 15;
+
 		writel_relaxed(val, l2x0_base + L310_PREFETCH_CTRL);
 	}
 
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2.5.5