[RFC PATCH] [X86/mem] Handle unaligned case by avoiding store crossing cache line

From: ling . ma
Date: Tue Oct 12 2010 - 08:44:45 EST


From: Ma Ling <ling.ma@xxxxxxxxx>

In this patch we mannage to reduce penalty from crossing cache line
on some CPU archs. There are two crossing-cache-line cases:
read and write, but write is more expensive because of
no cache-way predication and read-for-ownership operations
on some archs, here we avoid sotre unaligned cases,
another reason is shift register will cause more penalty
on decode stages, so tolerate read.

Bellow tests cases are on Atom 64bit based on Xie's patch(value is 1).

Len src/dst improvement speedup(x)
1, 0/ 0: 1
1, 4/ 0: 1
1, 0/ 4: 1
1, 4/ 4: 1
2, 0/ 0: 1
2, 4/ 0: 1
2, 0/ 4: 1
2, 4/ 4: 1
4, 0/ 0: 1
4, 4/ 0: 1
4, 0/ 4: 1
4, 4/ 4: 1
8, 0/ 0: 1
8, 4/ 0: 1
8, 0/ 4: 1
8, 4/ 4: 1
16, 0/ 0: 1
16, 4/ 0: 1
16, 0/ 4: 1
16, 4/ 4: 1
32, 0/ 0: 1
32, 4/ 0: 1
32, 0/ 4: 1
32, 4/ 4: 1
64, 0/ 0: 1
64, 4/ 0: 0.7
64, 0/ 4: 1
64, 4/ 4: 0.8
128, 0/ 0: 1.3
128, 4/ 0: 1.7
128, 0/ 4: 1
128, 4/ 4: 1.1
256, 0/ 0: 1.1
256, 4/ 0: 1.4
256, 0/ 4: 1
256, 4/ 4: 1.1
512, 0/ 0: 1
512, 4/ 0: 1.5
512, 0/ 4: 1
512, 4/ 4: 1
1024, 0/ 0: 1
1024, 4/ 0: 1.5
1024, 0/ 4: 1
1024, 4/ 4: 1
2048, 0/ 0: 1
2048, 4/ 0: 1.6
2048, 0/ 4: 1
2048, 4/ 4: 1
4096, 0/ 0: 1
4096, 4/ 0: 1.6
4096, 0/ 4: 1
4096, 4/ 4: 1

Signed-off-by: Ma Ling <ling.ma@xxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/lib/memcpy_64.S | 59 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
1 files changed, 52 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/lib/memcpy_64.S b/arch/x86/lib/memcpy_64.S
index 75ef61e..7545b08 100644
--- a/arch/x86/lib/memcpy_64.S
+++ b/arch/x86/lib/memcpy_64.S
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ ENTRY(memcpy)
/*
* Use 32bit CMP here to avoid long NOP padding.
*/
- cmp $0x20, %edx
+ cmp $0x28, %rdx
jb .Lhandle_tail

/*
@@ -54,7 +54,20 @@ ENTRY(memcpy)
*/
cmp %dil, %sil
jl .Lcopy_backward
- subl $0x20, %edx
+
+ /*
+ * We append data to avoid store crossing cache.
+ */
+ movq (%rsi), %rcx
+ movq %rdi, %r8
+ addq $8, %rdi
+ andq $-8, %rdi
+ movq %rcx, (%r8)
+ subq %rdi, %r8
+ addq %r8, %rdx
+ subq %r8, %rsi
+
+ subq $0x20, %rdx
.Lcopy_forward_loop:
subq $0x20, %rdx

@@ -74,20 +87,28 @@ ENTRY(memcpy)
leaq 4*8(%rdi), %rdi
jae .Lcopy_forward_loop
addq $0x20, %rdx
- jmp .Lhandle_tail
+ jmp .Lless_32bytes

+ .p2align 4
.Lcopy_backward:
/*
* Calculate copy position to tail.
*/
addq %rdx, %rsi
addq %rdx, %rdi
- subq $0x20, %rdx
+
/*
- * At most 3 ALU operations in one cycle,
- * so append NOPS in the same 16bytes trunk.
+ * We append data to avoid store crossing cache.
*/
- .p2align 4
+ movq -8(%rsi), %rcx
+ movq %rdi, %r8
+ andq $-8, %rdi
+ movq %rcx, -8(%r8)
+ subq %rdi, %r8
+ subq %r8, %rdx
+ subq %r8, %rsi
+
+ subq $0x20, %rdx
.Lcopy_backward_loop:
subq $0x20, %rdx
movq -1*8(%rsi), %r8
@@ -108,7 +129,31 @@ ENTRY(memcpy)
addq $0x20, %rdx
subq %rdx, %rsi
subq %rdx, %rdi
+ jmp .Lless_32bytes
+
+ .p2align 4
.Lhandle_tail:
+
+ cmpq $32, %rdx
+ jb .Lless_32bytes
+
+ /*
+ * Move data from 32 bytes to 39 bytes.
+ */
+ movq 0*8(%rsi), %rcx
+ movq 1*8(%rsi), %r8
+ movq -3*8(%rsi, %rdx), %r9
+ movq -2*8(%rsi, %rdx), %r10
+ movq -1*8(%rsi, %rdx), %r11
+ movq %rcx, 0*8(%rdi)
+ movq %r8, 1*8(%rdi)
+ movq %r9, -3*8(%rdi, %rdx)
+ movq %r10, -2*8(%rdi, %rdx)
+ movq %r11, -1*8(%rdi, %rdx)
+ retq
+
+ .p2align 4
+.Lless_32bytes:
cmpq $16, %rdx
jb .Lless_16bytes

--
1.6.5.2

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