/* * Copyright (C) 2013 Andrea Mazzoleni * * 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, either version 2 of the License, or * (at your option) any later version. * * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the * GNU General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License * along with this program. If not, see . */ #ifndef __RAID_MEMORY_H #define __RAID_MEMORY_H /** * Memory alignment provided by raid_malloc_align(). * * It should guarantee good cache performance everywhere. */ #define RAID_MALLOC_ALIGN 256 /** * Memory displacement to avoid cache collisions on contiguous blocks, * ued by raid_malloc_vector(). * * When allocating a sequence of blocks with a size of power of 2, * there is the risk that the start of each block is mapped into the same * cache line, resulting in cache collisions if you access all the blocks * in parallel, from the start to the end. * * The selected value was choosen empirically with some speed tests * with 8/12/16/20/24 data buffers and 3 parity buffers * for RAID-5/6/TP computation. * * With displacement (8 buffers, icore5, 32 bit): * * PAR1 sse2x4 21936 [MB/s] * PAR2 sse2x2 11902 [MB/s] * PARz sse2x1 5838 [MB/s] * * Without displacement: * * PAR1 sse2x4 15368 [MB/s] * PAR2 sse2x2 6814 [MB/s] * PARz sse2x1 3033 [MB/s] */ #define RAID_MALLOC_DISPLACEMENT (7*256) /** * Aligned malloc. */ void *raid_malloc_align(size_t size, void **freeptr); /** * Aligned vector allocation. * Returns a vector of "count" pointers, each one pointing to a block of the * specified "size". * The first "reverse" pointers are put in reverse memory offset order. */ void **raid_malloc_vector(size_t reverse, size_t count, size_t size, void **freeptr); /** * Tests the memory vector for RAM problems. * If a problem is found, it crashes. */ int raid_mtest_vector(void **vv, size_t count, size_t size); /** * Fills the memory vector with random data. */ void raid_mrand_vector(void **vv, size_t count, size_t size); #endif