On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 2:53 PM, Mike Holmes <[email protected]> wrote:

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> On 4 May 2016 at 15:40, Bill Fischofer <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 2:35 PM, Mike Holmes <[email protected]>
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>>> On 4 May 2016 at 12:47, Bill Fischofer <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
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>>>> Use a default cache line size of 64 for otherwise unrecognized linux
>>>> platforms. This resolves bug
>>>> https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2218
>>>>
>>>> Reported-by: Matias Elo <[email protected]>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Bill Fischofer <[email protected]>
>>>> ---
>>>>  platform/linux-generic/arch/linux/odp/api/cpu_arch.h | 10 ++++++++++
>>>>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/platform/linux-generic/arch/linux/odp/api/cpu_arch.h
>>>> b/platform/linux-generic/arch/linux/odp/api/cpu_arch.h
>>>> index 1c79f87..29f8889 100644
>>>> --- a/platform/linux-generic/arch/linux/odp/api/cpu_arch.h
>>>> +++ b/platform/linux-generic/arch/linux/odp/api/cpu_arch.h
>>>> @@ -11,6 +11,16 @@
>>>>  extern "C" {
>>>>  #endif
>>>>
>>>> +/** @ingroup odp_compiler_optim
>>>> + *  @{
>>>> + */
>>>> +
>>>> +#define ODP_CACHE_LINE_SIZE 64
>>>>
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>>> Is this a good number on a 16 bit linux system how about 32 ?
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>> We don't support 16-bit linux.
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> Yes we do, at least we have to assume so :) - it is called linux-generic
> it is based on any place linux can run, if some mad Eastern European
> drinking a gallon of Vodka makes linux run on a 3 and 1/2 bit CPU we
> currently support it by the default ARCH=linux
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> Additionally nowhere can I find that we state we dont support 16 bit linux.
>

I can't find an explicit reference to this in the ODP archives but I recall
very early in the project we decided to restrict ODP to a minimum of 32-bit
support because (a) none of our members had 16-bit HW and (b) we didn't
have any tools or systems to test ODP in 16-bit linux environments. If we
wanted to add such support it would be a major effort for little return.
The current linux-generic implementation, for example, assumes a minimum of
32-bit addressing in many places.

We can certainly add a documentation note to the Implementer's Guide that
ODP is designed for systems that use 32-bit or 64-bit addressing.


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>>  32-bit is the minimum for ODP.
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> This needs to be prominently added to the docs, and then I can agree.
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>> Also, for cache alignment overaligned is better than underaligned, so if
>> the actual cache line size is 32 then using 64-byte alignment does no harm
>> since a 64-byte aligned address is also 32-byte aligned.
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> This gets you a silent degradation in the amount of memory you use on a
> linux system that happens to be less than 64bits, and also silently an
> enforced under alignment on a 128 bit system, the very thing you wanted to
> avoid.
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> I am being nit picky to really get it well defined, I think we assume too
> much  that really ODP is run with the OS=linux, on a 64Bit CPU with posix
> threading.
>

I think you're trying to turn a bug-fix into an architecture discussion. If
someone has a better "guess" as to what cache line size to use for an
unknown and unspecified architecture I'm happy to change this.  But the
issue is that the #define is missing, which causes the compile error Matias
reported.


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>>>> +
>>>> +/**
>>>> + * @}
>>>> + */
>>>> +
>>>>  static inline void odp_cpu_pause(void)
>>>>  {
>>>>  }
>>>> --
>>>> 2.5.0
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>>> Mike Holmes
>>> Technical Manager - Linaro Networking Group
>>> Linaro.org <http://www.linaro.org/> *│ *Open source software for ARM
>>> SoCs
>>> "Work should be fun and collaborative, the rest follows"
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> Mike Holmes
> Technical Manager - Linaro Networking Group
> Linaro.org <http://www.linaro.org/> *│ *Open source software for ARM SoCs
> "Work should be fun and collaborative, the rest follows"
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