[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v9 1/3] eal/arm64: add 128-bit atomic compare exchange

Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran jerinj at marvell.com
Wed Aug 14 10:45:59 CEST 2019


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phil Yang <phil.yang at arm.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2019 1:58 PM
> To: thomas at monjalon.net; Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran <jerinj at marvell.com>;
> gage.eads at intel.com; dev at dpdk.org
> Cc: hemant.agrawal at nxp.com; Honnappa.Nagarahalli at arm.com;
> gavin.hu at arm.com; nd at arm.com
> Subject: [EXT] [PATCH v9 1/3] eal/arm64: add 128-bit atomic compare
> exchange
> +#define __HAS_ACQ(mo) ((mo) != __ATOMIC_RELAXED && (mo) !=
> +__ATOMIC_RELEASE) #define __HAS_RLS(mo) ((mo) ==
> __ATOMIC_RELEASE || (mo) == __ATOMIC_ACQ_REL || \
> +					  (mo) == __ATOMIC_SEQ_CST)
> +
> +#define __MO_LOAD(mo)  (__HAS_ACQ((mo)) ? __ATOMIC_ACQUIRE :
> +__ATOMIC_RELAXED) #define __MO_STORE(mo) (__HAS_RLS((mo)) ?
> +__ATOMIC_RELEASE : __ATOMIC_RELAXED)
> +
> +#if defined(__ARM_FEATURE_ATOMICS) ||
> defined(RTE_ARM_FEATURE_ATOMICS)
> +#define __ATOMIC128_CAS_OP(cas_op_name, op_string)                          \
> +static __rte_noinline rte_int128_t                                          \


Could you check the cost of making it as __rte_noinline?
If it is costly, How about having two versions, one with __rte_noinline
to make compliance with arm64 procedure call standard for
old gcc and clang.
Other one without explicit register hardcoding + inline for latest
gcc


> +cas_op_name(rte_int128_t *dst, rte_int128_t old,                            \
> +		rte_int128_t updated)                                       \
> +{                                                                           \
> +	/* caspX instructions register pair must start from even-numbered
> +	 * register at operand 1.
> +	 * So, specify registers for local variables here.
> +	 */                                                                 \
> +	register uint64_t x0 __asm("x0") = (uint64_t)old.val[0];            \
> +	register uint64_t x1 __asm("x1") = (uint64_t)old.val[1];            \
> +	register uint64_t x2 __asm("x2") = (uint64_t)updated.val[0];        \
> +	register uint64_t x3 __asm("x3") = (uint64_t)updated.val[1];        \
> +	asm volatile(                                                       \
> +		op_string " %[old0], %[old1], %[upd0], %[upd1], [%[dst]]"   \
> +		: [old0] "+r" (x0),                                         \
> +		[old1] "+r" (x1)                                            \
> +		: [upd0] "r" (x2),                                          \
> +		[upd1] "r" (x3),                                            \
> +		[dst] "r" (dst)                                             \
> +		: "memory");                                                \
> +	old.val[0] = x0;                                                    \
> +	old.val[1] = x1;                                                    \
> +	return old;                                                         \
> +}
> +


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