Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 11:13:52 -0700 From: Jack Vogel <jfvogel@gmail.com> To: Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> Cc: "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bz@freebsd.org>, "src-committers@freebsd.org" <src-committers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r270806 - head/sys/dev/ixl Message-ID: <CAFOYbcmpiGcO59LFC0LsSmqLmaf_VGeiTfALjgLJA2niokrzHQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAFOYbcmgcJh6aVKiFDjNRPo%2B9q0HiTbWKc6HpD1h%2BuB8-G0ahg@mail.gmail.com> References: <201408291240.s7TCe1OQ029986@svn.freebsd.org> <20140829171452.GO2737@kib.kiev.ua> <CAFOYbcmgcJh6aVKiFDjNRPo%2B9q0HiTbWKc6HpD1h%2BuB8-G0ahg@mail.gmail.com>
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OH, and I just asked the team here, and found out we explicitly do NOT support any 32 bit environment for this driver. Jack On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 10:49 AM, Jack Vogel <jfvogel@gmail.com> wrote: > I certainly agree that it would be a bit ridiculous to do 40G in a 32bit > environment :) > > Jack > > > > On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 10:14 AM, Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com > > wrote: > >> On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 12:40:01PM +0000, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: >> > Author: bz >> > Date: Fri Aug 29 12:40:01 2014 >> > New Revision: 270806 >> > URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/270806 >> > >> > Log: >> > Properly handle prefetch only for amd64 and i386 as we do elsewhere. >> > >> > In general theraven is right that we should factr this out and provide >> > a general and per-arch implementation that everything can use. >> > >> > MFC after: 3 days >> > X-MFC with: r270755 >> > >> > Modified: >> > head/sys/dev/ixl/i40e_osdep.h >> > >> > Modified: head/sys/dev/ixl/i40e_osdep.h >> > >> ============================================================================== >> > --- head/sys/dev/ixl/i40e_osdep.h Fri Aug 29 11:18:54 2014 >> (r270805) >> > +++ head/sys/dev/ixl/i40e_osdep.h Fri Aug 29 12:40:01 2014 >> (r270806) >> > @@ -137,11 +137,15 @@ struct i40e_spinlock { >> > >> > #define le16_to_cpu >> > >> > +#if defined(__amd64__) || defined(i386) >> > static __inline >> > void prefetch(void *x) >> > { >> > __asm volatile("prefetcht0 %0" :: "m" (*(unsigned long *)x)); >> > } >> This only fix the build failure, but the code is still somewhat wrong. >> >> Availability of the prefetch instruction depends on the presence of SSE. >> Althought it is probably impossible to find a machine where the intended >> hardware can operate and which does not support SSE _currently_, I am >> not sure that it is wise to hard-code SSE instructions in the i386 >> kernel. >> >> Might be, a change of the compilation test from both amd64 and i386 to >> just amd64 is due. I doubt that anybody would use 40Gb with 32bit OS, >> and even if somebody does, that the performace is at the stake in >> this case. >> >> > +#else >> > +#define prefetch(x) >> > +#endif >> > >> > struct i40e_osdep >> > { >> > >
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