[PATCH v3 4/5] i.MX: system.c: Tweak prefetch settings for performance

From: Andrey Smirnov
Date: Sat Jun 18 2016 - 20:31:51 EST


Update Prefetch Control Register settings to match that of Freescale's
Linux tree. As the commit e3addf1b773964eac7f797e8538c69481be4279c
states (author Nitin Garg):

"... set Prefetch offset to 15, since it improves memcpy performance by
35%. Don't enable Incr double Linefill enable since it adversely affects
memcpy performance by about 32MB/s and reads by 90MB/s. Tested with 4K
to 16MB sized src and dst aligned buffer..."

Those results are also corroborated by our own testing.

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Chris Healy <cphealy@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrey Smirnov <andrew.smirnov@xxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/arm/mach-imx/system.c | 8 ++++++--
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-imx/system.c b/arch/arm/mach-imx/system.c
index 7ba9dc8..d1300b9 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mach-imx/system.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mach-imx/system.c
@@ -111,8 +111,12 @@ void __init imx_init_l2cache(void)
val = readl_relaxed(l2x0_base + L310_PREFETCH_CTRL);
val |= L310_PREFETCH_CTRL_DBL_
L310_PREFETCH_CTRL_INSTR_PREFETCH |
- L310_PREFETCH_CTRL_DATA_PREFETCH |
- L310_PREFETCH_CTRL_DBL_LINEFILL_INCR;
+ L310_PREFETCH_CTRL_DATA_PREFETCH;
+
+ /* Set perfetch offset to improve performance */
+ val &= ~L310_PREFETCH_CTRL_OFFSET_MASK;
+ val |= 15;
+
writel_relaxed(val, l2x0_base + L310_PREFETCH_CTRL);
}

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2.5.5