From 97303480753e48fb313dc0e15daaf11b0451cdb8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tirumalesh Chalamarla Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2015 19:59:48 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Signed-off-by: Robert Richter Acked-by: Timur Tabi Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas --- arch/arm64/include/asm/cache.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) 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 -#define L1_CACHE_SHIFT 6 +#define L1_CACHE_SHIFT 7 #define L1_CACHE_BYTES (1 << L1_CACHE_SHIFT) /* -- 2.20.1