Guys,
The ucc_geth ethernet driver have dozens of strong sync read/write
operation, such as in_be32/16/8, out_be32/16/8.
all of them is sync read/write, it is very expensive for performance.
For the critical patch, we can remove some unnecessary in_be(x),
out_be(x) with normal memory operation, and keep some necessary
memory barrier.
eg: BD access in the interrupt handler and start_xmit.
The BD operation only need the memory barrier between length/buffer
and status.
struct buffer descriptor {
u16 status;
u16 length;
u32 buffer;
} __attribute__ ((packed));
struct buffer descriptor *BD;
BD->length = xxxx;
BD->buffer = yyyy;
wmb();
BD->status = zzzz;
For powerpc, eieio is enough for 60x, mbar 1 is enough for e500.
Of couse, also need the memory clobber to avoid the compiler
reorder between them.
Thanks, Dave
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