453d8f7366
The __sync builtin based implementation generates full memory barriers
('dmb ish') on Arm platforms. Using C11 atomic builtins to generate one way
barriers.
Here is the assembly code of __sync_compare_and_swap builtin.
__sync_bool_compare_and_swap(dst, exp, src);
0x000000000090f1b0 <+16>: e0 07 40 f9 ldr x0, [sp, #8]
0x000000000090f1b4 <+20>: e1 0f 40 79 ldrh w1, [sp, #6]
0x000000000090f1b8 <+24>: e2 0b 40 79 ldrh w2, [sp, #4]
0x000000000090f1bc <+28>: 21 3c 00 12 and w1, w1, #0xffff
0x000000000090f1c0 <+32>: 03 7c 5f 48 ldxrh w3, [x0]
0x000000000090f1c4 <+36>: 7f 00 01 6b cmp w3, w1
0x000000000090f1c8 <+40>: 61 00 00 54 b.ne 0x90f1d4
<rte_atomic16_cmpset+52> // b.any
0x000000000090f1cc <+44>: 02 fc 04 48 stlxrh w4, w2, [x0]
0x000000000090f1d0 <+48>: 84 ff ff 35 cbnz w4, 0x90f1c0
<rte_atomic16_cmpset+32>
0x000000000090f1d4 <+52>: bf 3b 03 d5 dmb ish
0x000000000090f1d8 <+56>: e0 17 9f 1a cset w0, eq // eq = none
The benchmarking results showed constant improvements on all available
platforms:
1. Cavium ThunderX2: 126% performance;
2. Hisilicon 1616: 30%;
3. Qualcomm Falkor: 13%;
4. Marvell ARMADA 8040 with A72 cores on macchiatobin: 3.7%
Here is the example test result on TX2:
$sudo ./build/app/test -l 16-27 -- i
RTE>>spinlock_autotest
*** spinlock_autotest without this patch ***
Test with lock on 12 cores...
Core [16] Cost Time = 53886 us
Core [17] Cost Time = 53605 us
Core [18] Cost Time = 53163 us
Core [19] Cost Time = 49419 us
Core [20] Cost Time = 34317 us
Core [21] Cost Time = 53408 us
Core [22] Cost Time = 53970 us
Core [23] Cost Time = 53930 us
Core [24] Cost Time = 53283 us
Core [25] Cost Time = 51504 us
Core [26] Cost Time = 50718 us
Core [27] Cost Time = 51730 us
Total Cost Time = 612933 us
*** spinlock_autotest with this patch ***
Test with lock on 12 cores...
Core [16] Cost Time = 18808 us
Core [17] Cost Time = 29497 us
Core [18] Cost Time = 29132 us
Core [19] Cost Time = 26150 us
Core [20] Cost Time = 21892 us
Core [21] Cost Time = 24377 us
Core [22] Cost Time = 27211 us
Core [23] Cost Time = 11070 us
Core [24] Cost Time = 29802 us
Core [25] Cost Time = 15793 us
Core [26] Cost Time = 7474 us
Core [27] Cost Time = 29550 us
Total Cost Time = 270756 us
In the tests on ThunderX2, with more cores contending, the performance gain
was even higher, indicating the __atomic implementation scales up better
than __sync.
Fixes: af75078fece3 ("first public release")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org
Signed-off-by: Gavin Hu <gavin.hu@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Phil Yang <phil.yang@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Honnappa Nagarahalli <honnappa.nagarahalli@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Ola Liljedahl <ola.liljedahl@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Steve Capper <steve.capper@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jerin Jacob <jerinj@marvell.com>
Acked-by: Nipun Gupta <nipun.gupta@nxp.com>
Acked-by: Konstantin Ananyev <konstantin.ananyev@intel.com>
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