[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] lib/librte_eal: support SVE flag on ARM64

[Wei Hu (Xavier)]

Hi, Honnappa Nagarahalli


On 2020/7/18 7:04, Honnappa Nagarahalli wrote:
> Hi,
> 	Thanks for the patch. Has this been tested on any platform (simulator, emulator etc)? Do you plan to add more code using SVE?
We have tested it on FPGA board and will upstream some code using SVE later.

Thanks, Xavier
> Thank you,
> Honnappa
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: dev <dev-bounces at dpdk.org> On Behalf Of Wei Hu (Xavier)
>> Sent: Friday, July 17, 2020 7:08 AM
>> To: dev at dpdk.org
>> Cc: xavier.huwei at huawei.com
>> Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] lib/librte_eal: support SVE flag on ARM64
>>
>> From: Chengwen Feng <fengchengwen at huawei.com>
>>
>> SVE is the next-generation SIMD extension of the ARMv8-A AArch64
>> instruction set.
>> The related marco definition can be found in linux kernel:
>>    arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/hwcap.h
>>
>> This patch supports getting cpu SVE feature on ARM64 platform.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Chengwen Feng <fengchengwen at huawei.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Wei Hu (Xavier) <xavier.huwei at huawei.com>
>> ---
>>   lib/librte_eal/arm/include/rte_cpuflags_64.h | 1 +
>>   lib/librte_eal/arm/rte_cpuflags.c            | 1 +
>>   2 files changed, 2 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/arm/include/rte_cpuflags_64.h
>> b/lib/librte_eal/arm/include/rte_cpuflags_64.h
>> index 95cc014..069844d 100644
>> --- a/lib/librte_eal/arm/include/rte_cpuflags_64.h
>> +++ b/lib/librte_eal/arm/include/rte_cpuflags_64.h
>> @@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ enum rte_cpu_flag_t {
>>   	RTE_CPUFLAG_SHA2,
>>   	RTE_CPUFLAG_CRC32,
>>   	RTE_CPUFLAG_ATOMICS,
>> +	RTE_CPUFLAG_SVE,
>>   	RTE_CPUFLAG_AARCH64,
>>   	/* The last item */
>>   	RTE_CPUFLAG_NUMFLAGS,/**< This should always be the last! */ diff
>> --git a/lib/librte_eal/arm/rte_cpuflags.c b/lib/librte_eal/arm/rte_cpuflags.c
>> index caf3dc8..b1e220b 100644
>> --- a/lib/librte_eal/arm/rte_cpuflags.c
>> +++ b/lib/librte_eal/arm/rte_cpuflags.c
>> @@ -95,6 +95,7 @@ const struct feature_entry rte_cpu_feature_table[] = {
>>   	FEAT_DEF(SHA2,		REG_HWCAP,    6)
>>   	FEAT_DEF(CRC32,		REG_HWCAP,    7)
>>   	FEAT_DEF(ATOMICS,	REG_HWCAP,    8)
>> +	FEAT_DEF(SVE,		REG_HWCAP,    22)
>>   	FEAT_DEF(AARCH64,	REG_PLATFORM, 1)
>>   };
>>   #endif /* RTE_ARCH */
>> --
>> 2.7.4
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