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authorTirumalesh Chalamarla <tchalamarla@cavium.com>2015-09-22 20:59:48 +0300
committerCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>2015-10-28 22:09:17 +0300
commit97303480753e48fb313dc0e15daaf11b0451cdb8 (patch)
tree6fd24b7c6fa67a31225a1528b0e2b8ee11b1bbd0 /arch/arm64
parent6e4a0f2b5c56af6be43b546df16b1ece7df537d8 (diff)
downloadlinux-97303480753e48fb313dc0e15daaf11b0451cdb8.tar.xz
arm64: Increase the max granular size
Increase the standard cacheline size to avoid having locks in the same cacheline. Cavium's ThunderX core implements cache lines of 128 byte size. With current granulare size of 64 bytes (L1_CACHE_SHIFT=6) two locks could share the same cache line leading a performance degradation. Increasing the size fixes that. Increasing the size has no negative impact to cache invalidation on systems with a smaller cache line. There is an impact on memory usage, but that's not too important for arm64 use cases. Signed-off-by: Tirumalesh Chalamarla <tchalamarla@cavium.com> Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <rrichter@cavium.com> Acked-by: Timur Tabi <timur@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm64')
-rw-r--r--arch/arm64/include/asm/cache.h2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/cache.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/cache.h
index bde449936e2f..5082b30bc2c0 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/cache.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/cache.h
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
#include <asm/cachetype.h>
-#define L1_CACHE_SHIFT 6
+#define L1_CACHE_SHIFT 7
#define L1_CACHE_BYTES (1 << L1_CACHE_SHIFT)
/*