[PATCH v3 2/3] powerpc/64s/idle: avoid POWER9 DD1 and DD2.0 ERAT workaround on DD2.1

Nicholas Piggin npiggin at gmail.com
Fri Nov 3 15:13:20 AEDT 2017


DD2.1 does not have to flush the ERAT after a state-loss idle.

Performance testing was done on a DD2.1 using only the stop0 idle state
(the shallowest state which supports state loss), using context_switch
selftest configured to ping-poing between two threads on the same core
and two different cores.

Performance improvement for same core is 7.0%, different cores is 14.8%.

Reviewed-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/idle_book3s.S | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/idle_book3s.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/idle_book3s.S
index 175d49f468af..d77766814090 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/idle_book3s.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/idle_book3s.S
@@ -542,7 +542,9 @@ pnv_restore_hyp_resource_arch300:
 	 * then clear bit 60 in MMCRA to ensure the PMU starts running.
 	 */
 	blt	cr3,1f
+BEGIN_FTR_SECTION
 	PPC_INVALIDATE_ERAT
+END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(CPU_FTR_POWER9_DD1 | CPU_FTR_POWER9_DD20)
 	ld	r1,PACAR1(r13)
 	mfspr	r4,SPRN_MMCRA
 	ori	r4,r4,(1 << (63-60))
-- 
2.15.0



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