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From: Akira Tsukamoto <akira.tsukamoto@gmail.com>
To: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>,
	Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>,
	Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
	Qiu Wenbo <qiuwenbo@kylinos.com.cn>,
	Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>,
	linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] __asm_copy_to-from_user: Reduce more byte_copy
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2021 20:01:29 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a70451d1-57ad-6b49-24c1-6408ef94a959@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <65f08f01-d4ce-75c2-030b-f8759003e061@gmail.com>

Hi Guenter, Geert and Qiu,

Would you mind testing this patch?
Thanks,

Akira

On 7/30/2021 10:50 PM, Akira Tsukamoto wrote:
> Adding none unrolling word_copy, which is used if the size is smaller
> than 9*SZREG.
> 
> This patch is based on Palmer's past comment.
>> My guess is that some workloads will want some smaller unrolling factors,
> 
> It will reduce the number of slow byte_copy being used when the 
> size is small.
> 
> Have tested on qemu rv32, qemu rv64 and beaglev beta board.
> 
> In the future, I am planning to convert uaccess.S to inline assembly 
> in .c file. Then it will be easier to optimize on both in-order core and
> out-of-order core with #ifdef macro in c.
> 
> Akira Tsukamoto (1):
>   riscv: __asm_copy_to-from_user: Improve using word copy if size <
>     9*SZREG
> 
>  arch/riscv/lib/uaccess.S | 46 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
>  1 file changed, 42 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 

  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-08-12 11:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-07-30 13:50 [PATCH 0/1] __asm_copy_to-from_user: Reduce more byte_copy Akira Tsukamoto
2021-07-30 13:52 ` [PATCH 1/1] riscv: __asm_copy_to-from_user: Improve using word copy if size < 9*SZREG Akira Tsukamoto
2021-08-12 13:41   ` Guenter Roeck
2021-08-15  6:51   ` Andreas Schwab
2021-08-16 18:09   ` Palmer Dabbelt
2021-08-16 19:00     ` Andreas Schwab
2021-08-20  6:42       ` Akira Tsukamoto
2021-08-17  9:03     ` Akira Tsukamoto
2021-08-12 11:01 ` Akira Tsukamoto [this message]
     [not found]   ` <61187c37.1c69fb81.ed9bd.cc45SMTPIN_ADDED_BROKEN@mx.google.com>
2021-08-16  6:24     ` [PATCH 0/1] __asm_copy_to-from_user: Reduce more byte_copy Akira Tsukamoto
     [not found]       ` <611a33ac.1c69fb81.12aae.89a5SMTPIN_ADDED_BROKEN@mx.google.com>
2021-08-17  7:32         ` Akira Tsukamoto

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