Huacai Chen c824ad1647 MIPS: Loongson-3: Enable Store Fill Buffer at runtime ... New Loongson-3 (Loongson-3A R2, Loongson-3A R3, and newer) has SFB (Store Fill Buffer) which can improve the performance of memory access. Now, SFB enablement is controlled by CONFIG_LOONGSON3_ENHANCEMENT, and the generic kernel has no benefit from SFB (even it is running on a new Loongson-3 machine). With this patch, we can enable SFB at runtime by detecting the CPU type (the expense is war_io_reorder_wmb() will always be a 'sync', which will hurt the performance of old Loongson-3). [paul.burton@mips.com: Further info from Huacai: In practise, I found that sometimes there are boot failures if I enable SFB/LPA in cpu_probe(). I don't know why because processor designers also haven't give me an explaination, but I think this may have some relationships to speculative execution.] Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen <chenhc@lemote.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com> Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/20426/ Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: James Hogan <jhogan@kernel.org> Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Cc: Fuxin Zhang <zhangfx@lemote.com> Cc: Zhangjin Wu <wuzhangjin@gmail.com> Cc: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@gmail.com>		2018-09-18 16:21:52 -07:00
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asm	MIPS: Loongson-3: Enable Store Fill Buffer at runtime	2018-09-18 16:21:52 -07:00
uapi/asm	net: Add a new socket option for a future transmit time.	2018-07-04 22:30:27 +09:00