Cuneiform: Cache optimizations for Rust, revived from the slabs of Sumer.

This crate provides a proc macro attribute to optimize CPU cache operations for user defined structs. Cuneiform can take various arguments at attribute position:

• hermetic = true|false (default is true when #[cuneiform])
• Hermetic enables cuneiform to detect cache sizes from OSes which have API to fetch.
• Currently, hermetic argument works only Linux kernel 2.6.32 and above.
• If system is different than supported systems it falls back to slabs.
• slab = "board_or_architecture_name (e.g. #[cuneiform(slab = "powerpc_mpc8xx")])
• Slabs are either embedded system boards or other specific architecture.
• Slab checking have two stages:
• First, it checks the given board/architecture if exist.
• If not slabs fall back to Rust supported architectures.
• Still architecture is not detected, it will fall back to default values.
• force = u8 (e.g. #[cuneiform(force = 16)])
• Forces a given cache alignment. Overrides all other systems mentioned above.

[dependencies]
cuneiform = "0.1"

Examples

Basic usage can be:

use cuneiform::*;

// Defaults to `hermetic = true`
#[cuneiform]
pub struct Varying {
data: u8,
data_2: u16,
}

Targeting specific architecture:

use cuneiform::*;

#[cuneiform(slab = "krait")]
pub struct SlabBased {
data: u8,
data_2: u16,
}

Overriding the default cache alignment:

use cuneiform::*;

#[cuneiform(force = 16)]
pub struct Forced {
data: u8,
data_2: u16,
}