On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 7:04 PM Jakub Kicinski
<jakub.kicin...@netronome.com> wrote:
>
> From: Jiong Wang <jiong.w...@netronome.com>
>
> NFP is using Local Memory to model stack. LM_addr could be used as base of
> a 16 32-bit word region of Local Memory. Then, if the stack offset is
> beyond the current region, the local index needs to be updated. The update
> needs at least three cycles to take effect, therefore the sequence normally
> looks like:
>
> local_csr_wr[ActLMAddr3, gprB_5]
> nop
> nop
> nop
>
> If the local index switch happens on a narrow loads, then the instruction
> preparing value to zero high 32-bit of the destination register could be
> counted as one cycle, the sequence then could be something like:
>
> local_csr_wr[ActLMAddr3, gprB_5]
> nop
> nop
> immed[gprB_5, 0]
>
> However, we have zero extension optimization that zeroing high 32-bit could
> be eliminated, therefore above IMMED insn won't be available for which case
> the first sequence needs to be generated.
>
> Fixes: 0b4de1ff19bf ("nfp: bpf: eliminate zero extension code-gen")
> Signed-off-by: Jiong Wang <jiong.w...@netronome.com>
> Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicin...@netronome.com>
I haven't looked into the code yet. But ^^^ should be
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicin...@netronome.com>
right?
