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author | Michael Hennerich <michael.hennerich@analog.com> | 2007-11-17 10:46:58 -0500 |
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committer | Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com> | 2007-11-17 10:46:58 -0500 |
commit | 5c91fb902d4e6f6006faf45edd3f25932cb7d58c (patch) | |
tree | 0bdf4457456a6bc8f794078e22a885dc44b2d159 /arch/blackfin/lib | |
parent | 1754a5d9f97f16f729066b8f125351af4951d6fe (diff) |
Blackfin arch: Add assembly function insl_16
/*
* CPUs often take a performance hit when accessing unaligned memory
* locations. The actual performance hit varies, it can be small if the
* hardware handles it or large if we have to take an exception and fix
* it
* in software.
*
* Since an ethernet header is 14 bytes network drivers often end up
* with
* the IP header at an unaligned offset. The IP header can be aligned by
* shifting the start of the packet by 2 bytes. Drivers should do this
* with:
*
* skb_reserve(NET_IP_ALIGN);
*
* The downside to this alignment of the IP header is that the DMA is
* now
* unaligned. On some architectures the cost of an unaligned DMA is high
* and this cost outweighs the gains made by aligning the IP header.
*
* Since this trade off varies between architectures, we allow
* NET_IP_ALIGN
* to be overridden.
*/
This new function insl_16 allows to read form 32-bit IO and writes to
16-bit aligned memory. This is useful in above described scenario -
In particular with the AXIS AX88180 Gigabit Ethernet MAC.
Once the device is in 32-bit mode, reads from the RX FIFO always
decrements 4bytes.
While on the other side the destination address in SDRAM is always
16-bit aligned.
If we use skb_reserve(0) the receive buffer is 32-bit aligned but later
we hit a unaligned exception in the IP code.
Signed-off-by: Michael Hennerich <michael.hennerich@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/blackfin/lib')
-rw-r--r-- | arch/blackfin/lib/ins.S | 19 |
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/blackfin/lib/ins.S b/arch/blackfin/lib/ins.S index a17cc77ac36f..df7b8833a0c5 100644 --- a/arch/blackfin/lib/ins.S +++ b/arch/blackfin/lib/ins.S | |||
@@ -77,3 +77,22 @@ ENTRY(_insb) | |||
77 | sti R3; | 77 | sti R3; |
78 | RTS; | 78 | RTS; |
79 | ENDPROC(_insb) | 79 | ENDPROC(_insb) |
80 | |||
81 | |||
82 | |||
83 | ENTRY(_insl_16) | ||
84 | P0 = R0; /* P0 = port */ | ||
85 | cli R3; | ||
86 | P1 = R1; /* P1 = address */ | ||
87 | P2 = R2; /* P2 = count */ | ||
88 | SSYNC; | ||
89 | LSETUP( .Llong16_loop_s, .Llong16_loop_e) LC0 = P2; | ||
90 | .Llong16_loop_s: R0 = [P0]; | ||
91 | W[P1++] = R0; | ||
92 | R0 = R0 >> 16; | ||
93 | W[P1++] = R0; | ||
94 | NOP; | ||
95 | .Llong16_loop_e: NOP; | ||
96 | sti R3; | ||
97 | RTS; | ||
98 | ENDPROC(_insl_16) | ||