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XOR implementation for ARMv8

PATCH New 刘晓东 4 participants 5 messages Jun 24, 2015 – Jun 30, 2015 arm64

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PATCH 1/1 XOR implementation for ARMv8

Use the 128-bit SIMD registers and SIMD arithmetic instructions for XOR calculation in assembly language.
Experimental results show that LDP/STP is more effective than LD1/ST1 for loading/restoring the operand, and we get better performance when using 16 SIMD registers than 32 registers. The result of xor speed test (measured by do_xor_speed) are as follows:

		32regs    	: 4352.000 MB/sec
		8regs     	: 4435.200 MB/sec
		ARM64-LD1-regs32: 38886.400 MB/sec
		ARM64-LD1-regs16: 45280.000 MB/sec
		ARM64-LDP-regs32: 44608.000 MB/sec
		ARM64-LDP-regs16: 53625.600 MB/sec

Iozone tests on disk array of RAID 5 show that the speed of of write operation can be improved by 15%~30%. This patch is currently against a linux 4.0.5 kernel for the arm64 architecture.

Please review, any input welcome.

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 include/asm/xor.h   |   34 +++++++
 kernel/arm64ksyms.c |   13 ++
 lib/Makefile        |    2 
 lib/xor.S           |  228 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 4 files changed, 276 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

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arch/arm64/include/asm/xor.h +34 -0
diff -pruN -X dontdiff linux-4.0.5-orig/arch/arm64/include/asm/xor.h linux-4.0.5-mod/arch/arm64/include/asm/xor.h
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+/*
+ * arch/arm64/include/asm/xor.h
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) Xiaodong Liu <[email protected]>, Changsha, P.R. China
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation.
+ */
+
+#include <asm-generic/xor.h>
+extern void xor_arm64ldpregs16_2(unsigned long, unsigned long *, unsigned long *);
+extern void xor_arm64ldpregs16_3(unsigned long, unsigned long *, unsigned long *,
+	unsigned long *);
+extern void xor_arm64ldpregs16_4(unsigned long, unsigned long *, unsigned long *,
+	unsigned long *, unsigned long *);
+extern void xor_arm64ldpregs16_5(unsigned long, unsigned long *, unsigned long *,
+	unsigned long *, unsigned long *, unsigned long *);
+
+static struct xor_block_template xor_block_arm64ldpregs16 = {
+	.name   = "ARM64LDPregs16",
+	.do_2   = xor_arm64ldpregs16_2,
+	.do_3   = xor_arm64ldpregs16_3,
+	.do_4   = xor_arm64ldpregs16_4,
+	.do_5   = xor_arm64ldpregs16_5,
+};
+
+#undef XOR_TRY_TEMPLATES
+#define XOR_TRY_TEMPLATES			\
+	do {					\
+		xor_speed(&xor_block_arm64ldpregs16);	\
+		xor_speed(&xor_block_32regs);	\
+		xor_speed(&xor_block_8regs);	\
+	} while (0)
arch/arm64/kernel/arm64ksyms.c +13 -0
diff -pruN -X dontdiff linux-4.0.5-orig/arch/arm64/kernel/arm64ksyms.c linux-4.0.5-mod/arch/arm64/kernel/arm64ksyms.c
@@ -65,3 +65,16 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(test_and_change_bit);
 #ifdef CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(_mcount);
 #endif
+
+	/* xor ops */
+extern void xor_arm64ldpregs16_2(unsigned long, unsigned long *, unsigned long *);
+extern void xor_arm64ldpregs16_3(unsigned long, unsigned long *, unsigned long *,
+	unsigned long *);
+extern void xor_arm64ldpregs16_4(unsigned long, unsigned long *, unsigned long *,
+	unsigned long *, unsigned long *);
+extern void xor_arm64ldpregs16_5(unsigned long, unsigned long *, unsigned long *,
+	unsigned long *, unsigned long *, unsigned long *);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(xor_arm64ldpregs16_2);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(xor_arm64ldpregs16_3);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(xor_arm64ldpregs16_4);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(xor_arm64ldpregs16_5);
arch/arm64/lib/Makefile +1 -1
diff -pruN -X dontdiff linux-4.0.5-orig/arch/arm64/lib/Makefile linux-4.0.5-mod/arch/arm64/lib/Makefile
@@ -2,4 +2,4 @@ lib-y		:= bitops.o clear_user.o delay.o
 		   copy_to_user.o copy_in_user.o copy_page.o		\
 		   clear_page.o memchr.o memcpy.o memmove.o memset.o	\
 		   memcmp.o strcmp.o strncmp.o strlen.o strnlen.o	\
-		   strchr.o strrchr.o
+		   strchr.o strrchr.o xor.o
arch/arm64/lib/xor.S +228 -0

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#1 lore raw

PATCH 1/1 XOR implementation for ARMv8

Quoted 1 line · ???

Use the 128-bit SIMD registers and SIMD arithmetic instructions for XOR calculation in assembly language.

Don't you need kernel_neon_begin()/kernel_neon_end() somewhere? (see Documentation/arm/kernel_mode_neon.txt).

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Jerome
#2 lore raw

PATCH 1/1 XOR implementation for ARMv8

Quoted 8 lines · J?r?me Forissier
Quoted 1 line · ???

Use the 128-bit SIMD registers and SIMD arithmetic instructions for XOR calculation in assembly language.

Don't you need kernel_neon_begin()/kernel_neon_end() somewhere? (see Documentation/arm/kernel_mode_neon.txt).

Jerome is right: use of this driver will corrupt the FP/SIMD state of arbitrary userland tasks if you don't explicitly claim the NEON for in-kernel use by calling kernel_neon_begin)_ and end()

Since XOR may be called in interrupt context, this could add a fixed overhead to each call, even if you are calling the function many times in a row. This means you may be better off using even fewer registers, and use kernel_neon_begin_partial() instead.

May I ask what kind of core you tested this on?

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Ard.
#3 lore raw

PATCH 1/1 XOR implementation for ARMv8

In reply to 刘晓东
Quoted 37 lines · ???

diff -pruN -X dontdiff linux-4.0.5-orig/arch/arm64/lib/xor.S linux-4.0.5-mod/arch/arm64/lib/xor.S

arch/arm64/lib/xor.S 2015-06-24 09:25:49.969256540 +0800 renamed from arch/arm64/lib/xor.S 1970-01-01 08:00:00.000000000 +0800 +33 -0
@@ -0,0 +1,228 @@
+/*
+ * arch/arm64/lib/xor.S
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) Xiaodong Liu <[email protected]>, Changsha, P.R. China
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation.
+ */
+
+#include <linux/linkage.h>
+#include <asm/assembler.h>
+.macro xor_vectorregs16
+    eor v24.16b, v24.16b, v16.16b
+    eor v25.16b, v25.16b, v17.16b
+    eor v26.16b, v26.16b, v18.16b
+    eor v27.16b, v27.16b, v19.16b
+    eor v28.16b, v28.16b, v20.16b
+    eor v29.16b, v29.16b, v21.16b
+    eor v30.16b, v30.16b, v22.16b
+    eor v31.16b, v31.16b, v23.16b
+.endm
+
+.align 4
+
+/*
+ * void xor_arm64ldpregs16_2(unsigned long size, unsigned long * dst, unsigned long *src);
+ *
+ * Parameters:
+ *     x0 - size
+ *     x1 - dst
+ *     x2 - src
+ */

arch/arm64/lib/xor.S 2015-06-24 09:25:49.969256540 +0800 line 43

Quoted 10 lines
arch/arm64/lib/xor.S 2015-06-24 09:25:49.969256540 +0800 renamed from arch/arm64/lib/xor.S 1970-01-01 08:00:00.000000000 +0800 +10 -0
+ENTRY(xor_arm64ldpregs16_2)
+
+    lsr x0, x0, #10
+
+.p2align 4
+Loop23:
+    ldp q16, q17, [x2], #32
+    ldp q18, q19, [x2], #32
+    ldp q20, q21, [x2], #32
+    ldp q22, q23, [x2], #32

Have you tried using immediate offsets instead of post-index addressing? E.g.

	ldp q16, q17, [x2]
	ldp q18, q19, [x2, #32], #32
	ldp q20, q21, [x2, #64], #32
	ldp q22, q23, [x2, #96]
	add x2, x2, #128

Will

#4 lore raw

PATCH 1/1 XOR implementation for ARMv8

Quoted 52 lines · Will Deacon
Quoted 37 lines · ???

diff -pruN -X dontdiff linux-4.0.5-orig/arch/arm64/lib/xor.S linux-4.0.5-mod/arch/arm64/lib/xor.S

arch/arm64/lib/xor.S 2015-06-24 09:25:49.969256540 +0800 renamed from arch/arm64/lib/xor.S 1970-01-01 08:00:00.000000000 +0800 +33 -0
@@ -0,0 +1,228 @@
+/*
+ * arch/arm64/lib/xor.S
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) Xiaodong Liu <[email protected]>, Changsha, P.R. China
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation.
+ */
+
+#include <linux/linkage.h>
+#include <asm/assembler.h>
+.macro xor_vectorregs16
+    eor v24.16b, v24.16b, v16.16b
+    eor v25.16b, v25.16b, v17.16b
+    eor v26.16b, v26.16b, v18.16b
+    eor v27.16b, v27.16b, v19.16b
+    eor v28.16b, v28.16b, v20.16b
+    eor v29.16b, v29.16b, v21.16b
+    eor v30.16b, v30.16b, v22.16b
+    eor v31.16b, v31.16b, v23.16b
+.endm
+
+.align 4
+
+/*
+ * void xor_arm64ldpregs16_2(unsigned long size, unsigned long * dst, unsigned long *src);
+ *
+ * Parameters:
+ *     x0 - size
+ *     x1 - dst
+ *     x2 - src
+ */

arch/arm64/lib/xor.S 2015-06-24 09:25:49.969256540 +0800 line 43

Quoted 10 lines
arch/arm64/lib/xor.S 2015-06-24 09:25:49.969256540 +0800 renamed from arch/arm64/lib/xor.S 1970-01-01 08:00:00.000000000 +0800 +10 -0
+ENTRY(xor_arm64ldpregs16_2)
+
+    lsr x0, x0, #10
+
+.p2align 4
+Loop23:
+    ldp q16, q17, [x2], #32
+    ldp q18, q19, [x2], #32
+    ldp q20, q21, [x2], #32
+    ldp q22, q23, [x2], #32

Have you tried using immediate offsets instead of post-index addressing? E.g.

Quoted 3 lines
	ldp q16, q17, [x2]
	ldp q18, q19, [x2, #32], #32
	ldp q20, q21, [x2, #64], #32

Without the post-index offsets, of course ;)

Will