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Date:      Mon, 9 Nov 2015 20:09:30 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        Ian Lepore <ian@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net>, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-mips@freebsd.org" <freebsd-mips@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: CPU underload
Message-ID:  <42B3546E-F0F5-4A66-AFF0-D16465343FF9@bsdimp.com>
In-Reply-To: <1447091207.91534.481.camel@freebsd.org>
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> On Nov 9, 2015, at 10:46 AM, Ian Lepore <ian@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>=20
> On Tue, 2015-11-10 at 00:42 +0700, Eugene Grosbein wrote:
>> On 10.11.2015 00:39, Ian Lepore wrote:
>>> On Sun, 2015-11-08 at 11:23 -0800, Adrian Chadd wrote:
>>>> ok, what's the l1 cache size reported at boot up?
>>>>=20
>>>> I think I may just bump them all to 64.
>>>=20
>>> 64 is not some kind of magic panacea.  The value needs to be set to
>>> the
>>> cache line size for the runtime platform.  If the right value is
>>> 32,
>>> then setting it to 64 will just waste memory.

If we ever have a universal kernel, 64 could run on either 32 or
64 byte cache lines. Since we don=E2=80=99t, this is largely correct. It =
was
mostly a quick and easy to test suggestion, it doesn=E2=80=99t matter =
since:

>>>> L1 d-cache: 4 ways of 256 sets, 32 bytes per line

>> Is it for instruction cache or for data cache?
>=20
> Only the data cache size matters for USB_HOST_ALIGN.

Since we=E2=80=99re flushing the data cache, and we don=E2=80=99t want =
the
device visible part of the USB buffers to share a cache line
with other data for the host to use about the device. Making
it too big doesn=E2=80=99t help, and costs memory. Making it too small
is fatal: usb simply won=E2=80=99t work.

Why we don=E2=80=99t have a panic when the cache line size is larger
than usb_host_align, and a warning when it is smaller is
beyond me...

Warner


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