snapraid/raid/memory.h
2013-12-30 21:12:29 +01:00

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/*
* 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.
*/
#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