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Subject[PATCH RFC] [x86] Optimize copy-page by reducing impact from HW prefetch
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From: Ma Ling <ling.ma@intel.com>

Program's temporal & spatial locality introduce cache unit to overcome
the processor-memory performance gap, hardware prefetch is very important
to improve performance by reducing cache miss. Modern CPU micro-architecture
mainly support two kinds of prefetch mechanism in L1 data cache:

a. Data cache unit (DCU) prefetcher. Data spatial locality ask us to provide
adjacent data while handling current data. larger cache line size
is one choice, but it would cause more cached data to be evicted and latency
to load, so we simply prefetch next line when accessing current data.
This mode only prefetch data of ascending address.

b. Instruction pointer (IP)- based strided prefetcher. Based on Load/write
instruction address the mechanism predicate to prefetch data with adaptive stride,
including ascending and descending address

DCU mode is good when time program data operation spend is longer than that of
prefetch next line, however copy-page function breaks the assumption,
DCU mode is hardly helpful, specially we append software prefetch and data is
in cache, so bus traffic is more busy that impact perforamnce seriously.

In this patch we introduce backward copy to successfully avoid HW prfetch
impact(DCU prefetcher), and simplify original code.
The performance is improved about 15% on core2, 36% on snb respectively.
(We use our micro-benchmark, and will do further test according to your requirment)

Thanks
Ling

---
arch/x86/lib/copy_page_64.S | 124 +++++++++++++++++++-----------------------
1 files changed, 56 insertions(+), 68 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/lib/copy_page_64.S b/arch/x86/lib/copy_page_64.S
index 6fec2d1..3d17280 100644
--- a/arch/x86/lib/copy_page_64.S
+++ b/arch/x86/lib/copy_page_64.S
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
/* Written 2003 by Andi Kleen, based on a kernel by Evandro Menezes */
+/* Updated 2011 by Ma Ling to introduce backward copy */

#include <linux/linkage.h>
#include <asm/dwarf2.h>
@@ -17,83 +18,70 @@ ENDPROC(copy_page_c)

/* Could vary the prefetch distance based on SMP/UP */

+/*
+ * By backward copy we manage to reduce impact from HW prefetch
+ * when data is in L1 cache, and get benefit when data is not in L1 cache.
+ */
ENTRY(copy_page)
CFI_STARTPROC
- subq $3*8,%rsp
- CFI_ADJUST_CFA_OFFSET 3*8
- movq %rbx,(%rsp)
- CFI_REL_OFFSET rbx, 0
- movq %r12,1*8(%rsp)
- CFI_REL_OFFSET r12, 1*8
- movq %r13,2*8(%rsp)
- CFI_REL_OFFSET r13, 2*8
-
- movl $(4096/64)-5,%ecx
- .p2align 4
+ lea 0x4096(%rsi), %rsi
+ lea 0x4096(%rdi), %rdi
+ mov $(4096/64)-5, %cl
+ mov $5, %dl
+ /*
+ * Nop force following instruction to be 16 bytes aligned.
+ */
+ nop
.Loop64:
- dec %rcx
-
- movq (%rsi), %rax
- movq 8 (%rsi), %rbx
- movq 16 (%rsi), %rdx
- movq 24 (%rsi), %r8
- movq 32 (%rsi), %r9
- movq 40 (%rsi), %r10
- movq 48 (%rsi), %r11
- movq 56 (%rsi), %r12
-
- prefetcht0 5*64(%rsi)
-
- movq %rax, (%rdi)
- movq %rbx, 8 (%rdi)
- movq %rdx, 16 (%rdi)
- movq %r8, 24 (%rdi)
- movq %r9, 32 (%rdi)
- movq %r10, 40 (%rdi)
- movq %r11, 48 (%rdi)
- movq %r12, 56 (%rdi)
-
- leaq 64 (%rsi), %rsi
- leaq 64 (%rdi), %rdi
+ prefetchnta -5*64(%rsi)
+ dec %cl
+
+ movq -0x8*1(%rsi), %rax
+ movq -0x8*2(%rsi), %r8
+ movq -0x8*3(%rsi), %r9
+ movq -0x8*4(%rsi), %r10
+ movq %rax, -0x8*1(%rdi)
+ movq %r8, -0x8*2(%rdi)
+ movq %r9, -0x8*3(%rdi)
+ movq %r10, -0x8*4(%rdi)
+
+ movq -0x8*5(%rsi), %rax
+ movq -0x8*6(%rsi), %r8
+ movq -0x8*7(%rsi), %r9
+ movq -0x8*8(%rsi), %r10
+ leaq -64(%rsi), %rsi
+ movq %rax, -0x8*5(%rdi)
+ movq %r8, -0x8*6(%rdi)
+ movq %r9, -0x8*7(%rdi)
+ movq %r10, -0x8*8(%rdi)
+ leaq -64(%rdi), %rdi

jnz .Loop64

- movl $5,%ecx
- .p2align 4
.Loop2:
- decl %ecx
-
- movq (%rsi), %rax
- movq 8 (%rsi), %rbx
- movq 16 (%rsi), %rdx
- movq 24 (%rsi), %r8
- movq 32 (%rsi), %r9
- movq 40 (%rsi), %r10
- movq 48 (%rsi), %r11
- movq 56 (%rsi), %r12
-
- movq %rax, (%rdi)
- movq %rbx, 8 (%rdi)
- movq %rdx, 16 (%rdi)
- movq %r8, 24 (%rdi)
- movq %r9, 32 (%rdi)
- movq %r10, 40 (%rdi)
- movq %r11, 48 (%rdi)
- movq %r12, 56 (%rdi)
-
- leaq 64(%rdi),%rdi
- leaq 64(%rsi),%rsi
-
+ dec %dl
+
+ movq -0x8*1(%rsi), %rax
+ movq -0x8*2(%rsi), %r8
+ movq -0x8*3(%rsi), %r9
+ movq -0x8*4(%rsi), %r10
+ movq %rax, -0x8*1(%rdi)
+ movq %r8, -0x8*2(%rdi)
+ movq %r9, -0x8*3(%rdi)
+ movq %r10, -0x8*4(%rdi)
+
+ movq -0x8*5(%rsi), %rax
+ movq -0x8*6(%rsi), %r8
+ movq -0x8*7(%rsi), %r9
+ movq -0x8*8(%rsi), %r10
+ leaq -64(%rsi), %rsi
+ movq %rax, -0x8*5(%rdi)
+ movq %r8, -0x8*6(%rdi)
+ movq %r9, -0x8*7(%rdi)
+ movq %r10, -0x8*8(%rdi)
+ leaq -64(%rdi), %rdi
jnz .Loop2

- movq (%rsp),%rbx
- CFI_RESTORE rbx
- movq 1*8(%rsp),%r12
- CFI_RESTORE r12
- movq 2*8(%rsp),%r13
- CFI_RESTORE r13
- addq $3*8,%rsp
- CFI_ADJUST_CFA_OFFSET -3*8
ret
.Lcopy_page_end:
CFI_ENDPROC
--
1.6.5.2


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