On 07/03/2015 05:40 PM, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> From: Matthew Wilcox <wi...@linux.intel.com>
>
> When userspace does a write, there's no need for the written data to
> pollute the CPU cache. This matches the original XIP code.
>
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <wi...@linux.intel.com>
> ---
> fs/dax.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/dax.c b/fs/dax.c
> index 99b5fbc..eaa9e06 100644
> --- a/fs/dax.c
> +++ b/fs/dax.c
> @@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ static ssize_t dax_io(struct inode *inode, struct
> iov_iter *iter,
> }
>
> if (iov_iter_rw(iter) == WRITE)
> - len = copy_from_iter(addr, max - pos, iter);
> + len = copy_from_iter_nocache(addr, max - pos, iter);
> else if (!hole)
> len = copy_to_iter(addr, max - pos, iter);
> else
>
With the current ioremap_nocache at pmem none of this matters for pmem.
For brd yes, so We've been conducting some measurements and regular ext4
(no DAX) benchmark gives 6-16% increase in performance with this above.
And DAX is almost x2 then no DAX.
Is why the network guys been using this for a long time. So I'd say this
is a good default for any page-cache writes. (Think about it it makes sense,
we will 95% of the time flush these to real memory before DMA)
For pmem with any sane cached mapping (We use page-stuct-pmem actually)
Then DAX, for it to actually work (persist) with pmem, needs this:
static size_t copy_from_iter_nt(void *addr, size_t bytes, struct iov_iter *ii)
{
size_t ret = copy_from_iter_nocache(addr, bytes, ii);
if (unlikely((ii->type & ITER_BVEC) || (ii->type & ITER_KVEC))) {
/* FIXME: copy_from_iter_nocache did regular copy for Kernel
* buffers (BVEC or KVEC). Before we fix it do cl_flush
* for now.
*/
cl_flush(addr, bytes, false);
} else {
/* copy_from_iter_nocache only persists in 8-byte aligned words.
* Lets persist remaining unaligned edges.
*/
if (unlikely((ulong)addr & 0x7))
cl_flush(addr, 1, false);
if (unlikely((ulong)(addr + bytes) & 0x7))
cl_flush((addr + bytes), 1, false);
}
return ret;
}
This is based on an not-in-kernel cl_flush().
The first part FIXME above could be fixed with Dan's memcpy_persistent() patches
Cheers
Boaz
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