linux-kernel - [PATCH v3 0/3] arm64/fpsimd: Don't disable softirq when touching FPSIMD/SVE state

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Message-Id: <20190423135719.11306-1-julien.grall@arm.com>
Date:   Tue, 23 Apr 2019 14:57:16 +0100
From:   Julien Grall <julien.grall@....com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Cc:     catalin.marinas@....com, will.deacon@....com,
        christoffer.dall@....com, marc.zyngier@....com,
        james.morse@....com, julien.thierry@....com,
        suzuki.poulose@....com, Dave.Martin@....com,
        ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org, Julien Grall <julien.grall@....com>
Subject: [PATCH v3 0/3] arm64/fpsimd: Don't disable softirq when touching FPSIMD/SVE state

Hi all,

This patch series keeps softirqs enabled while touching FPSIMD/SVE state.
For more details on the impact see patch #3.

This patch series has been benchmarked on Linux 5.1-rc4 with defconfig.

On Juno2:
    * hackbench 100 process 1000 (10 times)
    * .7% quicker

On ThunderX 2:
    * hackbench 1000 process 1000 (20 times)
    * 3.4% quicker

Note that while the benchmark has been done on 5.1-rc4, the patch series is
based on kvm-arm/next as it has few conflicts with the
SVE KVM series.

Cheers,

Julien Grall (3):
  arm64/fpsimd: Remove the prototype for sve_flush_cpu_state()
  arch/arm64: fpsimd: Introduce fpsimd_save_and_flush_cpu_state() and
    use it
  arm64/fpsimd: Don't disable softirq when touching FPSIMD/SVE state

 arch/arm64/include/asm/fpsimd.h |   6 +-
 arch/arm64/include/asm/simd.h   |  10 +--
 arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c      | 135 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
 arch/arm64/kvm/fpsimd.c         |   4 +-
 4 files changed, 100 insertions(+), 55 deletions(-)

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