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From: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
To: Yoshihiro Shimoda <yoshihiro.shimoda.uh@renesas.com>
Cc: joro@8bytes.org, axboe@kernel.dk, ulf.hansson@linaro.org,
	wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com, hch@lst.de,
	iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-block@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org, linux-renesas-soc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v6 0/5] treewide: improve R-Car SDHI performance
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2019 21:36:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190613193628.GA6863@kunai> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1560421215-10750-1-git-send-email-yoshihiro.shimoda.uh@renesas.com>

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On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 07:20:10PM +0900, Yoshihiro Shimoda wrote:
> This patch series is based on iommu.git / next branch.
> 
> Since SDHI host internal DMAC of the R-Car Gen3 cannot handle two or
> more segments, the performance rate (especially, eMMC HS400 reading)
> is not good. However, if IOMMU is enabled on the DMAC, since IOMMU will
> map multiple scatter gather buffers as one contignous iova, the DMAC can
> handle the iova as well and then the performance rate is possible to
> improve. In fact, I have measured the performance by using bonnie++,
> "Sequential Input - block" rate was improved on r8a7795.
> 
> To achieve this, this patch series modifies IOMMU and Block subsystem
> at first. Since I'd like to get any feedback from each subsystem whether
> this way is acceptable for upstream, I submit it to treewide with RFC.
> 
> Changes from v5:
>  - Almost all patches are new code.
>  - [4/5 for MMC] This is a refactor patch so that I don't add any
>    {Tested,Reviewed}-by tags.
>  - [5/5 for MMC] Modify MMC subsystem to use bigger segments instead of
>    the renesas_sdhi driver.
>  - [5/5 for MMC] Use BLK_MAX_SEGMENTS (128) instead of local value
>    SDHI_MAX_SEGS_IN_IOMMU (512). Even if we use BLK_MAX_SEGMENTS,
>    the performance is still good.

Thanks for your hard work, Shimoda-san!

I may not be the biggest DMA, IOMMU, and block layer expert, but I
really like how this simplifies the SDHI driver and enhances the MMC
core. So, I'll add my two cents to the patches although I can't really
comment on the main functionality.


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From: Wolfram Sang <wsa-z923LK4zBo2bacvFa/9K2g@public.gmane.org>
To: Yoshihiro Shimoda
	<yoshihiro.shimoda.uh-zM6kxYcvzFBBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org>
Cc: axboe-tSWWG44O7X1aa/9Udqfwiw@public.gmane.org,
	linux-renesas-soc-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org,
	ulf.hansson-QSEj5FYQhm4dnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org,
	linux-mmc-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org,
	linux-block-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org,
	wsa+renesas-jBu1N2QxHDJrcw3mvpCnnVaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org,
	iommu-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org,
	hch-jcswGhMUV9g@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v6 0/5] treewide: improve R-Car SDHI performance
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2019 21:36:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190613193628.GA6863@kunai> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1560421215-10750-1-git-send-email-yoshihiro.shimoda.uh-zM6kxYcvzFBBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org>


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On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 07:20:10PM +0900, Yoshihiro Shimoda wrote:
> This patch series is based on iommu.git / next branch.
> 
> Since SDHI host internal DMAC of the R-Car Gen3 cannot handle two or
> more segments, the performance rate (especially, eMMC HS400 reading)
> is not good. However, if IOMMU is enabled on the DMAC, since IOMMU will
> map multiple scatter gather buffers as one contignous iova, the DMAC can
> handle the iova as well and then the performance rate is possible to
> improve. In fact, I have measured the performance by using bonnie++,
> "Sequential Input - block" rate was improved on r8a7795.
> 
> To achieve this, this patch series modifies IOMMU and Block subsystem
> at first. Since I'd like to get any feedback from each subsystem whether
> this way is acceptable for upstream, I submit it to treewide with RFC.
> 
> Changes from v5:
>  - Almost all patches are new code.
>  - [4/5 for MMC] This is a refactor patch so that I don't add any
>    {Tested,Reviewed}-by tags.
>  - [5/5 for MMC] Modify MMC subsystem to use bigger segments instead of
>    the renesas_sdhi driver.
>  - [5/5 for MMC] Use BLK_MAX_SEGMENTS (128) instead of local value
>    SDHI_MAX_SEGS_IN_IOMMU (512). Even if we use BLK_MAX_SEGMENTS,
>    the performance is still good.

Thanks for your hard work, Shimoda-san!

I may not be the biggest DMA, IOMMU, and block layer expert, but I
really like how this simplifies the SDHI driver and enhances the MMC
core. So, I'll add my two cents to the patches although I can't really
comment on the main functionality.


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From: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
To: Yoshihiro Shimoda <yoshihiro.shimoda.uh@renesas.com>
Cc: axboe@kernel.dk, linux-renesas-soc@vger.kernel.org,
	ulf.hansson@linaro.org, linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-block@vger.kernel.org, wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com,
	iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org, hch@lst.de
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v6 0/5] treewide: improve R-Car SDHI performance
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2019 21:36:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190613193628.GA6863@kunai> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1560421215-10750-1-git-send-email-yoshihiro.shimoda.uh@renesas.com>


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On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 07:20:10PM +0900, Yoshihiro Shimoda wrote:
> This patch series is based on iommu.git / next branch.
> 
> Since SDHI host internal DMAC of the R-Car Gen3 cannot handle two or
> more segments, the performance rate (especially, eMMC HS400 reading)
> is not good. However, if IOMMU is enabled on the DMAC, since IOMMU will
> map multiple scatter gather buffers as one contignous iova, the DMAC can
> handle the iova as well and then the performance rate is possible to
> improve. In fact, I have measured the performance by using bonnie++,
> "Sequential Input - block" rate was improved on r8a7795.
> 
> To achieve this, this patch series modifies IOMMU and Block subsystem
> at first. Since I'd like to get any feedback from each subsystem whether
> this way is acceptable for upstream, I submit it to treewide with RFC.
> 
> Changes from v5:
>  - Almost all patches are new code.
>  - [4/5 for MMC] This is a refactor patch so that I don't add any
>    {Tested,Reviewed}-by tags.
>  - [5/5 for MMC] Modify MMC subsystem to use bigger segments instead of
>    the renesas_sdhi driver.
>  - [5/5 for MMC] Use BLK_MAX_SEGMENTS (128) instead of local value
>    SDHI_MAX_SEGS_IN_IOMMU (512). Even if we use BLK_MAX_SEGMENTS,
>    the performance is still good.

Thanks for your hard work, Shimoda-san!

I may not be the biggest DMA, IOMMU, and block layer expert, but I
really like how this simplifies the SDHI driver and enhances the MMC
core. So, I'll add my two cents to the patches although I can't really
comment on the main functionality.


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Thread overview: 93+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-06-13 10:20 [RFC PATCH v6 0/5] treewide: improve R-Car SDHI performance Yoshihiro Shimoda
2019-06-13 10:20 ` Yoshihiro Shimoda
2019-06-13 10:20 ` Yoshihiro Shimoda
2019-06-13 10:20 ` [RFC PATCH v6 1/5] iommu: add an exported function to get minimum page size for a domain Yoshihiro Shimoda
2019-06-13 10:20   ` Yoshihiro Shimoda
2019-06-13 10:20   ` Yoshihiro Shimoda
2019-06-13 19:37   ` Wolfram Sang
2019-06-13 19:37     ` Wolfram Sang
2019-06-13 19:37     ` Wolfram Sang
2019-06-14  7:16     ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-14  7:16       ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-14  7:16       ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-17  5:08     ` Yoshihiro Shimoda
2019-06-17  5:08       ` Yoshihiro Shimoda
2019-06-17  5:08       ` Yoshihiro Shimoda
2019-06-14  9:41   ` Robin Murphy
2019-06-14  9:41     ` Robin Murphy
2019-06-14  9:41     ` Robin Murphy
2019-06-17  5:23     ` Yoshihiro Shimoda
2019-06-17  5:23       ` Yoshihiro Shimoda
2019-06-17  5:23       ` Yoshihiro Shimoda
2019-06-13 10:20 ` [RFC PATCH v6 2/5] block: sort headers on blk-setting.c Yoshihiro Shimoda
2019-06-13 10:20   ` Yoshihiro Shimoda
2019-06-13 10:20   ` Yoshihiro Shimoda
2019-06-13 19:40   ` Wolfram Sang
2019-06-13 19:40     ` Wolfram Sang
2019-06-13 19:40     ` Wolfram Sang
2019-06-13 10:20 ` [RFC PATCH v6 3/5] block: add a helper function to merge the segments by an IOMMU Yoshihiro Shimoda
2019-06-13 10:20   ` Yoshihiro Shimoda
2019-06-13 10:20   ` Yoshihiro Shimoda
2019-06-14  7:22   ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-14  7:22     ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-14  7:22     ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-14  9:54   ` Robin Murphy
2019-06-14  9:54     ` Robin Murphy
2019-06-14  9:54     ` Robin Murphy
2019-06-17  6:29     ` Yoshihiro Shimoda
2019-06-17  6:29       ` Yoshihiro Shimoda
2019-06-17  6:29       ` Yoshihiro Shimoda
2019-06-13 10:20 ` [RFC PATCH v6 4/5] mmc: tmio: Use dma_max_mapping_size() instead of a workaround Yoshihiro Shimoda
2019-06-13 10:20   ` Yoshihiro Shimoda
2019-06-13 10:20   ` Yoshihiro Shimoda
2019-06-13 19:45   ` Wolfram Sang
2019-06-13 19:45     ` Wolfram Sang
2019-06-13 19:45     ` Wolfram Sang
2019-06-17  4:25     ` Yoshihiro Shimoda
2019-06-17  4:25       ` Yoshihiro Shimoda
2019-06-17  4:25       ` Yoshihiro Shimoda
2019-06-13 20:35   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-06-13 20:35     ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-06-13 20:35     ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-06-14  7:18     ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-14  7:18       ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-14  7:18       ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-14  7:27       ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-06-14  7:27         ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-06-14  7:27         ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-06-17  4:54         ` Yoshihiro Shimoda
2019-06-17  4:54           ` Yoshihiro Shimoda
2019-06-17  4:54           ` Yoshihiro Shimoda
2019-06-17  6:23           ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-06-17  6:23             ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-06-17  6:23             ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-06-17  6:54             ` Yoshihiro Shimoda
2019-06-17  6:54               ` Yoshihiro Shimoda
2019-06-17  6:54               ` Yoshihiro Shimoda
2019-06-13 10:20 ` [RFC PATCH v6 5/5] mmc: queue: Use bigger segments if IOMMU can merge the segments Yoshihiro Shimoda
2019-06-13 10:20   ` Yoshihiro Shimoda
2019-06-13 10:20   ` Yoshihiro Shimoda
2019-06-13 19:58   ` Wolfram Sang
2019-06-13 19:58     ` Wolfram Sang
2019-06-13 19:58     ` Wolfram Sang
2019-06-17  6:38     ` Yoshihiro Shimoda
2019-06-17  6:38       ` Yoshihiro Shimoda
2019-06-17  6:38       ` Yoshihiro Shimoda
2019-06-14  7:24   ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-14  7:24     ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-14  7:24     ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-14 10:42     ` Wolfram Sang
2019-06-14 10:42       ` Wolfram Sang
2019-06-14 10:42       ` Wolfram Sang
2019-06-17  6:46     ` Yoshihiro Shimoda
2019-06-17  6:46       ` Yoshihiro Shimoda
2019-06-17  6:46       ` Yoshihiro Shimoda
2019-06-17  6:53       ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-17  6:53         ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-17  6:53         ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-17  7:02         ` Yoshihiro Shimoda
2019-06-17  7:02           ` Yoshihiro Shimoda
2019-06-17  7:02           ` Yoshihiro Shimoda
2019-06-13 19:36 ` Wolfram Sang [this message]
2019-06-13 19:36   ` [RFC PATCH v6 0/5] treewide: improve R-Car SDHI performance Wolfram Sang
2019-06-13 19:36   ` Wolfram Sang

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