powerpc: 64bit optimised __clear_user

I noticed __clear_user high up in a profile of one of my RAID stress
tests. The testcase was doing a dd from /dev/zero which ends up
calling __clear_user.

__clear_user is basically a loop with a single 4 byte store which
is horribly slow. We can do much better by aligning the desination
and doing 32 bytes of 8 byte stores in a loop.

The following testcase was used to verify the patch:

http://ozlabs.org/~anton/junkcode/stress_clear_user.c

To show the improvement in performance I ran a dd from /dev/zero
to /dev/null on a POWER7 box:

Before:

# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=1M count=10000
10485760000 bytes (10 GB) copied, 3.72379 s, 2.8 GB/s

After:

# time dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=1M count=10000
10485760000 bytes (10 GB) copied, 0.728318 s, 14.4 GB/s

Over 5x faster.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Anton Blanchard
2012-05-27 19:54:03 +00:00
commit de Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_HAS_IOMEM) += devres.o
obj-$(CONFIG_PPC64) += copypage_64.o copyuser_64.o \
memcpy_64.o usercopy_64.o mem_64.o string.o \
checksum_wrappers_64.o hweight_64.o \
copyuser_power7.o
copyuser_power7.o string_64.o
obj-$(CONFIG_XMON) += sstep.o ldstfp.o
obj-$(CONFIG_KPROBES) += sstep.o ldstfp.o
obj-$(CONFIG_HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT) += sstep.o ldstfp.o