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-rw-r--r--drivers/md/dm-writecache.c42
1 files changed, 37 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-writecache.c b/drivers/md/dm-writecache.c
index 613c171b1b6d..74f3c506f084 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-writecache.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-writecache.c
@@ -234,10 +234,6 @@ static int persistent_memory_claim(struct dm_writecache *wc)
wc->memory_vmapped = false;
- if (!wc->ssd_dev->dax_dev) {
- r = -EOPNOTSUPP;
- goto err1;
- }
s = wc->memory_map_size;
p = s >> PAGE_SHIFT;
if (!p) {
@@ -1143,6 +1139,42 @@ static int writecache_message(struct dm_target *ti, unsigned argc, char **argv,
return r;
}
+static void memcpy_flushcache_optimized(void *dest, void *source, size_t size)
+{
+ /*
+ * clflushopt performs better with block size 1024, 2048, 4096
+ * non-temporal stores perform better with block size 512
+ *
+ * block size 512 1024 2048 4096
+ * movnti 496 MB/s 642 MB/s 725 MB/s 744 MB/s
+ * clflushopt 373 MB/s 688 MB/s 1.1 GB/s 1.2 GB/s
+ *
+ * We see that movnti performs better for 512-byte blocks, and
+ * clflushopt performs better for 1024-byte and larger blocks. So, we
+ * prefer clflushopt for sizes >= 768.
+ *
+ * NOTE: this happens to be the case now (with dm-writecache's single
+ * threaded model) but re-evaluate this once memcpy_flushcache() is
+ * enabled to use movdir64b which might invalidate this performance
+ * advantage seen with cache-allocating-writes plus flushing.
+ */
+#ifdef CONFIG_X86
+ if (static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_CLFLUSHOPT) &&
+ likely(boot_cpu_data.x86_clflush_size == 64) &&
+ likely(size >= 768)) {
+ do {
+ memcpy((void *)dest, (void *)source, 64);
+ clflushopt((void *)dest);
+ dest += 64;
+ source += 64;
+ size -= 64;
+ } while (size >= 64);
+ return;
+ }
+#endif
+ memcpy_flushcache(dest, source, size);
+}
+
static void bio_copy_block(struct dm_writecache *wc, struct bio *bio, void *data)
{
void *buf;
@@ -1168,7 +1200,7 @@ static void bio_copy_block(struct dm_writecache *wc, struct bio *bio, void *data
}
} else {
flush_dcache_page(bio_page(bio));
- memcpy_flushcache(data, buf, size);
+ memcpy_flushcache_optimized(data, buf, size);
}
bvec_kunmap_irq(buf, &flags);