[dpdk-dev] [RFC v2 1/5] eal: add power management intrinsics

[Liang, Ma]

On 11 Aug 11:27, Liang Ma wrote:
> Add two new power management intrinsics, and provide an implementation
> in eal/x86 based on UMONITOR/UMWAIT instructions. The instructions
> are implemented as raw byte opcodes because there is not yet widespread
> compiler support for these instructions.
> 
> The power management instructions provide an architecture-specific
> function to either wait until a specified TSC timestamp is reached, or
> optionally wait until either a TSC timestamp is reached or a memory
> location is written to. The monitor function also provides an optional
> comparison, to avoid sleeping when the expected write has already
> happened, and no more writes are expected.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Liang Ma <liang.j.ma at intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov at intel.com>
> --- 
<snip> 
> diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/x86/include/rte_cpuflags.h b/lib/librte_eal/x86/include/rte_cpuflags.h
> index c1d20364d..94d6a4376 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_eal/x86/include/rte_cpuflags.h
> +++ b/lib/librte_eal/x86/include/rte_cpuflags.h
> @@ -110,6 +110,7 @@ enum rte_cpu_flag_t {
>  	RTE_CPUFLAG_RDTSCP,                 /**< RDTSCP */
>  	RTE_CPUFLAG_EM64T,                  /**< EM64T */
>  
> +	RTE_CPUFLAG_WAITPKG,                 /**< UMINITOR/UMWAIT/TPAUSE */
need re-work the order to avoid breaking ABI
>  	/* (EAX 80000007h) EDX features */
>  	RTE_CPUFLAG_INVTSC,                 /**< INVTSC */
>  
</snip>  
> -- 
> 2.17.1
>