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From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@wdc.com>
To: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>,
	"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>,
	Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	alpha <linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, linux-rtc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2 v3] alpha: add a delay to inb_p, inb_w and inb_l
Date: Fri, 22 May 2020 14:37:05 +0100 (BST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.21.2005221414510.21168@redsun52.ssa.fujisawa.hgst.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LRH.2.02.2005201403480.24885@file01.intranet.prod.int.rdu2.redhat.com>

On Fri, 22 May 2020, Mikulas Patocka wrote:

> >  Hmm, having barriers *afterwards* across all the MMIO accessors, even 
> > ones that do not have such a requirement according to memory-barriers.txt, 
> > does hurt performance unnecessarily however.  What I think has to be done 
> > is adding barriers beforehand, and then only add barriers afterwards where 
> > necessary.  Commit 92d7223a74 did a part of that, but did not consistently 
> > update all the remaining accessors.
> > 
> >  So I don't think reverting 92d7223a74 permanently is the right way to go, 
> > however it certainly makes sense to do that temporarily to get rid of the 
> > fatal regression, sort all the corner cases and then apply the resulting 
> > replacement fix.
> 
> See Documentation/memory-barriers.txt, the section "KERNEL I/O BARRIER 
> EFFECTS"
> 
> According to the specification, there must be a barrier before a write to 
> the MMIO space (paragraph 3) and after a read from MMIO space (parahraph 
> 4) - if this causes unnecessary slowdown, the driver should use 
> readX_relaxed or writeX_relaxed functions - the *_relaxed functions are 
> ordered with each other (see the paragraph "(*) readX_relaxed(), 
> writeX_relaxed()"), but they are not ordered with respect to memory 
> access.

 The specification doesn't require a barrier *after* a write however, 
which is what I have been concerned about as it may cost hundreds of 
cycles wasted.  I'm not concerned about a barrier after a read (and one 
beforehand is of course also required).

> The commit 92d7223a74 fixes that requirement (although there is no real 
> driver that was fixed by this), so I don't think it should be reverted. 
> The proper fix should be to add delays to the serial port and readltime 
> clock (or perhaps to all IO-port accesses).

 Adding artificial delays will only paper over the real problem I'm 
afraid.

> > I think ultimately we do want the barriers beforehand, just like the 
> > MIPS port has (and survives) in arch/mips/include/asm/io.h.  Observe 
> 
> If the MIPS port doesn't have MMIO barrier after read[bwl], then it is 
> violating the specification. Perhaps there is no existing driver that is 
> hurt by this violation, so this violation survived.

 It does have a barrier, see:

	/* prevent prefetching of coherent DMA data prematurely */	\
	if (!relax)							\
		rmb();							\

In the light of #5 however:

        5. A readX() by a CPU thread from the peripheral will complete before
           any subsequent delay() loop can begin execution on the same thread.

I think it may have to be replaced with a completion barrier however, and 
that will be tricky because you cannot just issue a second read to the 
resource accessed after the `rmb' to make the first read complete, as a 
MMIO read may have side effects (e.g. clearing an interrupt request).  So 
the read would have to happen to a different location.

 Some architectures have a hardware completion barrier instruction, such 
as the modern MIPS ISA, which makes life sweet and easy (as much as life 
can be sweet and easy with a weakly ordered bus model) as no dummy read is 
then required, but surely not all do (including older MIPS ISA revisions).

  Maciej

  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-22 13:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-06 11:21 [PATCH 1/2] alpha: add a delay between RTC port write and read Mikulas Patocka
2020-05-06 14:20 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-05-06 17:12   ` [PATCH 1/2 v2] alpha: add a delay to inb_p, inb_w and inb_l Mikulas Patocka
2020-05-07  8:06     ` [PATCH 1/2 v3] " Mikulas Patocka
2020-05-07  8:20       ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-05-07 10:53         ` Mikulas Patocka
2020-05-07 13:30       ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-05-07 14:09         ` Mikulas Patocka
2020-05-07 15:08           ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-05-07 15:45             ` Mikulas Patocka
2020-05-07 15:46             ` [PATCH v4] alpha: add a barrier after outb, outw and outl Mikulas Patocka
2020-05-07 19:12               ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-05-10  1:27                 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2020-05-10  1:25             ` [PATCH 1/2 v3] alpha: add a delay to inb_p, inb_w and inb_l Maciej W. Rozycki
2020-05-10 18:50               ` Mikulas Patocka
2020-05-11 14:58                 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2020-05-12 19:35                   ` Mikulas Patocka
2020-05-13 14:41                   ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2020-05-13 16:13                     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-05-13 17:17                     ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2020-05-22 13:03                       ` Mikulas Patocka
2020-05-22 13:37                         ` Maciej W. Rozycki [this message]
2020-05-22 13:26                     ` Mikulas Patocka
2020-05-22 20:00                       ` Mikulas Patocka
2020-05-23 10:26                         ` [PATCH v4] alpha: fix memory barriers so that they conform to the specification Mikulas Patocka
2020-05-23 15:10                           ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2020-05-23 15:34                             ` Mikulas Patocka
2020-05-23 15:37                               ` [PATCH v5] " Mikulas Patocka
2020-05-24 14:54                                 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2020-05-25 13:56                                   ` Mikulas Patocka
2020-05-25 14:07                                     ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-05-25 14:45                                     ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2020-05-25 15:53                                       ` [PATCH v6] " Mikulas Patocka
2020-05-26 14:47                                         ` [PATCH v7] " Mikulas Patocka
2020-05-27  0:18                                           ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2020-06-08  6:58                                             ` Mikulas Patocka
2020-06-08 23:49                                               ` Matt Turner
2020-05-25 15:54                                       ` [PATCH v5] " Mikulas Patocka
2020-05-25 16:39                                         ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2020-05-26 14:48                                           ` Mikulas Patocka
2020-05-27  0:23                                             ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2020-05-23 16:44                               ` [PATCH v4] " Maciej W. Rozycki
2020-05-23 17:09                                 ` Mikulas Patocka
2020-05-23 19:27                                   ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2020-05-23 20:11                                     ` Mikulas Patocka

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