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powerpc/powernv/npu: Use size-based ATSD invalidates
Prior to this change only two types of ATSDs were issued to the NPU:
invalidates targeting a single page and invalidates targeting the whole
address space. The crossover point happened at the configurable
atsd_threshold which defaulted to 2M. Invalidates that size or smaller
would issue per-page invalidates for the whole range.
The NPU supports more invalidation sizes however: 64K, 2M, 1G, and all.
These invalidates target addresses aligned to their size. 2M is a common
invalidation size for GPU-enabled applications because that is a GPU
page size, so reducing the number of invalidates by 32x in that case is a
clear improvement.
ATSD latency is high in general so now we always issue a single invalidate
rather than multiple. This will over-invalidate in some cases, but for any
invalidation size over 2M it matches or improves the prior behavior.
There's also an improvement for single-page invalidates since the prior
version issued two invalidates for that case instead of one.
With this change all issued ATSDs now perform a flush, so the flush
parameter has been removed from all the helpers.
To show the benefit here are some performance numbers from a
microbenchmark which creates a 1G allocation then uses mprotect with
PROT_NONE to trigger invalidates in strides across the allocation.
One NPU (1 GPU):
mprotect rate (GB/s)
Stride Before After Speedup
64K 5.3 5.6 5%
1M 39.3 57.4 46%
2M 49.7 82.6 66%
4M 286.6 285.7 0%
Two NPUs (6 GPUs):
mprotect rate (GB/s)
Stride Before After Speedup
64K 6.5 7.4 13%
1M 33.4 67.9 103%
2M 38.7 93.1 141%
4M 356.7 354.6 -1%
Anything over 2M is roughly the same as before since both cases issue a
single ATSD.
Signed-off-by: 
Mark Hairgrove <mhairgrove@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-By: Alistair Popple <alistair@popple.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>