lib/raid6: Use strict priority ranking for pq gen() benchmarking

On x86_64, currently 3 variants of AVX512, 3 variants of AVX2
and 3 variants of SSE2 are benchmarked on initialization, taking
betwee

lib/raid6: Use strict priority ranking for pq gen() benchmarking

On x86_64, currently 3 variants of AVX512, 3 variants of AVX2
and 3 variants of SSE2 are benchmarked on initialization, taking
between 144-153 jiffies. Testing across a hardware pool of
various generations of intel cpus I could not find a single
case where SSE2 won over AVX2 or AVX512. There are cases where
AVX2 wins over AVX512 however.

Change "prefer" into an integer priority field (similar to
how recov selection works) to have more than one ranking level
available, which is backwards compatible with existing behavior.

Give AVX2/512 variants higher priority over SSE2 in order to skip
SSE testing when AVX is available. in a AVX2/x86_64/HZ=250 case this
saves in the order of 200ms of initialization time.

Signed-off-by: Dirk Müller <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Paul Menzel <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <[email protected]>

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x86: update AS_* macros to binutils >=2.23, supporting ADX and AVX2

Now that the kernel specifies binutils 2.23 as the minimum version, we
can remove ifdefs for AVX2 and ADX throughout.

Signed-off-

x86: update AS_* macros to binutils >=2.23, supporting ADX and AVX2

Now that the kernel specifies binutils 2.23 as the minimum version, we
can remove ifdefs for AVX2 and ADX throughout.

Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <[email protected]>

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treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 48

Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
it under the terms of the

treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 48

Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by
the free software foundation inc 53 temple place ste 330 boston ma
02111 1307 usa either version 2 of the license or at your option any
later version incorporated herein by reference

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

GPL-2.0-or-later

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 13 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

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lib/raid6: Add AVX2 optimized xor_syndrome functions

Implement the AVX2 optimization of RAID6 xor_syndrome functions which is
simply based on sse2.c written by hpa.

Cc: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]

lib/raid6: Add AVX2 optimized xor_syndrome functions

Implement the AVX2 optimization of RAID6 xor_syndrome functions which is
simply based on sse2.c written by hpa.

Cc: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]>
Cc: Yuanhan Liu <[email protected]>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Gayatri Kammela <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <[email protected]>

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md/raid6 algorithms: delta syndrome functions

v3: s-o-b comment, explanation of performance and descision for
the start/stop implementation

Implementing rmw functionality for RAID6 requires optimiz

md/raid6 algorithms: delta syndrome functions

v3: s-o-b comment, explanation of performance and descision for
the start/stop implementation

Implementing rmw functionality for RAID6 requires optimized syndrome
calculation. Up to now we can only generate a complete syndrome. The
target P/Q pages are always overwritten. With this patch we provide
a framework for inplace P/Q modification. In the first place simply
fill those functions with NULL values.

xor_syndrome() has two additional parameters: start & stop. These
will indicate the first and last page that are changing during a
rmw run. That makes it possible to avoid several unneccessary loops
and speed up calculation. The caller needs to implement the following
logic to make the functions work.

1) xor_syndrome(disks, start, stop, ...): "Remove" all data of source
blocks inside P/Q between (and including) start and end.

2) modify any block with start <= block <= stop

3) xor_syndrome(disks, start, stop, ...): "Reinsert" all data of
source blocks into P/Q between (and including) start and end.

Pages between start and stop that won't be changed should be filled
with a pointer to the kernel zero page. The reasons for not taking NULL
pages are:

1) Algorithms cross the whole source data line by line. Thus avoid
additional branches.

2) Having a NULL page avoids calculating the XOR P parity but still
need calulation steps for the Q parity. Depending on the algorithm
unrolling that might be only a difference of 2 instructions per loop.

The benchmark numbers of the gen_syndrome() functions are displayed in
the kernel log. Do the same for the xor_syndrome() functions. This
will help to analyze performance problems and give an rough estimate
how well the algorithm works. The choice of the fastest algorithm will
still depend on the gen_syndrome() performance.

With the start/stop page implementation the speed can vary a lot in real
life. E.g. a change of page 0 & page 15 on a stripe will be harder to
compute than the case where page 0 & page 1 are XOR candidates. To be not
to enthusiatic about the expected speeds we will run a worse case test
that simulates a change on the upper half of the stripe. So we do:

1) calculation of P/Q for the upper pages

2) continuation of Q for the lower (empty) pages

Signed-off-by: Markus Stockhausen <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <[email protected]>

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lib/raid6: Add AVX2 optimized gen_syndrome functions

Add AVX2 optimized gen_syndrom functions, which is simply based on
sse2.c written by hpa.

Signed-off-by: Yuanhan Liu <[email protected]

lib/raid6: Add AVX2 optimized gen_syndrome functions

Add AVX2 optimized gen_syndrom functions, which is simply based on
sse2.c written by hpa.

Signed-off-by: Yuanhan Liu <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jim Kukunas <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <[email protected]>

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