-----Original Message----- From: Philip Balister philip@balister.org To: Joe Woodward jw@terrafix.co.uk Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:53:37 -0500 Subject: Re: OMAP3 performance regression in 2011.12
Did you find out anymore info on this? I may have a customer who is seeing this on a 3.o based overo.
(CC'ing in the mailing list again).
Sadly not, no more replies to this.
I think either this change needs reverting (but that'll break OMAP4) or at least encasing in #ifdefs so that it isn't applied for OMAP3.
I was going to ask on the Linux OMAP mailing list if the L2/outer cache is enabled on OMAP3 in Linux but haven't got round to it yet!
Cheers, Joe
Philip
On 01/09/2012 10:48 AM, Joe Woodward wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: Tom Rini tom.rini@gmail.com To: Joe Woodward jw@terrafix.co.uk Cc: u-boot@lists.denx.de Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 08:11:07 -0700 Subject: Re: [U-Boot] OMAP3 performance regression in 2011.12
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 3:27 AM, Joe Woodward jw@terrafix.co.uk
wrote:
Commit "armv7: disable L2 cache in cleanup_before_linux()" on 6th
Dec
2011 by Aneesh V adds the following:
arch/arm/cpu/armv7/cpu.c:cleanup_before_linux()
... v7_out_cache_disable(); ...
The commit message implies this change was to make booting
reliable
on OMAP4 by disabling L2 cache before jumping to Linux.
However, when running with a stock 3.2 Linux kernel on an OMAP3 it
has the effect of massively reducing system performance (when
running
using an OMAP3-
only 3.2 Linux Kernel on a GUSMTIX Overo OMAP3530).
Therefore, I assume this means that the kernel isn't turning the
L2
cache back on for an OMAP3 (at least with my kernel build)!
So, my question is...
Are there any Kconfig options in Linux that will re-enable the L2
cache (something obvious that I've missed), or is this commit just bad-news for OMAP3?
Are you certain that this is the commit that's causing your
problem?
The kernel is responsible for turning the cache back on and has for
a
long time, iirc.
-- Tom
(apologies for previous top posting, wasn't paying attention to what
I was doing!)
I'm fairly certain...
If I take the 2011.12 uBoot release the kernel takes about twice the
time to boot (compared to 2011.09), and the device is noticably slower.
Then if I comment out the v7_out_cache_disable() line in cpu.c and
rebuild uBoot then everything speeds up again.
I thought the kernel would turn on the cache again too...
Is there any easy way from userspace to determine if the cache is on?
I did a bit of Googling and found: http://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg50064.html http://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg50083.html
It may be that the kernel is re-enabling the L1 cache, but expecting
L2 to be on?
Or the way v7_out_cache_disable() disables L2 is not compatible with
the way the kernel expects to re-enable it?
Also, in the Linux there seem to be OMAP4 specific functions for
re-enabling the L2 cache (omap4-common.c:omap_l2_cache_init()), but none for OMAP3. I'm
assuming this is because up to now OMAP3 is assumed to have the L2
left enabled? Either that, or there is some generic Cortex-A8 method for enabling the L2
cache in the kernel soures that I've not found...
Cheers, Joe
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