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This patch allows the user to disable write combined mapping
of the efifb framebuffer console using an nowc option.
A customer noticed major slowdowns while logging to the console
with write combining enabled, on other tasks running on the same
CPU. (10x or greater slow down on all other cores on the same CPU
as is doing the logging).
I reproduced this on a machine with dual CPUs.
Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2609 v3 @ 1.90GHz (6 core)
I wrote a test that just mmaps the pci bar and writes to it in
a loop, while this was running in the background one a single
core with (taskset -c 1), building a kernel up to init/version.o
(taskset -c 8) went from 13s to 133s or so. I've yet to explain
why this occurs or what is going wrong I haven't managed to find
a perf command that in any way gives insight into this.
11,885,070,715 instructions # 1.39 insns per cycle
vs
12,082,592,342 instructions # 0.13 insns per cycle
is the only thing I've spotted of interest, I've tried at least:
dTLB-stores,dTLB-store-misses,L1-dcache-stores,LLC-store,LLC-store-misses,LLC-load-misses,LLC-loads,\mem-loads,mem-stores,iTLB-loads,iTLB-load-misses,cache-references,cache-misses
For now it seems at least a good idea to allow a user to disable write
combining if they see this until we can figure it out.
Note also most users get a real framebuffer driver loaded when kms
kicks in, it just happens on these machines the kernel didn't support
the gpu specific driver.
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
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What is efifb?
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This is a generic EFI platform driver for Intel based Apple computers.
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efifb is only for EFI booted Intel Macs.
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Supported Hardware
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iMac 17"/20"
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Macbook
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Macbook Pro 15"/17"
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MacMini
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How to use it?
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efifb does not have any kind of autodetection of your machine.
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You have to add the following kernel parameters in your elilo.conf:
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Macbook :
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video=efifb:macbook
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MacMini :
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video=efifb:mini
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Macbook Pro 15", iMac 17" :
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video=efifb:i17
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Macbook Pro 17", iMac 20" :
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video=efifb:i20
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Accepted options:
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nowc Don't map the framebuffer write combined. This can be used
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to workaround side-effects and slowdowns on other CPU cores
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when large amounts of console data are written.
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--
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Edgar Hucek <gimli@dark-green.com>
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