From: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com>
To: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
Clint Sbisa <csbisa@amazon.com>,
linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org>,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, will@kernel.org,
catalin.marinas@arm.com, Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: Enable PCI write-combine resources under sysfs
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2020 15:09:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200916140914.GA20770@e121166-lin.cambridge.arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200916121226.GN1573713@nvidia.com>
On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 09:12:26AM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
[...]
> > You mean the driver uses a different path to the HW which ahs that
> > overhead, not that MMIOs have that overhead right ?
>
> The different path has overhead of doing extra useless MMIOs because
> they don't combine
For my own information, this is IB user space driver code, correct ? It
tries to mmap buffer as WC and if it succeeds write into it in an
optimized fashion (that is just pure overhead on platforms where normal
NC memory - ie WC on arm64 - does not do what the _architecture_ defines
it should).
Lorenzo
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From: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com>
To: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Cc: catalin.marinas@arm.com, Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org>,
linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, will@kernel.org,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
Clint Sbisa <csbisa@amazon.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: Enable PCI write-combine resources under sysfs
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2020 15:09:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200916140914.GA20770@e121166-lin.cambridge.arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200916121226.GN1573713@nvidia.com>
On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 09:12:26AM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
[...]
> > You mean the driver uses a different path to the HW which ahs that
> > overhead, not that MMIOs have that overhead right ?
>
> The different path has overhead of doing extra useless MMIOs because
> they don't combine
For my own information, this is IB user space driver code, correct ? It
tries to mmap buffer as WC and if it succeeds write into it in an
optimized fashion (that is just pure overhead on platforms where normal
NC memory - ie WC on arm64 - does not do what the _architecture_ defines
it should).
Lorenzo
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Thread overview: 117+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-31 15:18 [PATCH] arm64: Enable PCI write-combine resources under sysfs Clint Sbisa
2020-08-31 23:24 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2020-09-01 18:37 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2020-09-01 23:22 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2020-09-02 8:57 ` Will Deacon
2020-09-02 11:32 ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2020-09-02 14:29 ` Clint Sbisa
2020-09-02 16:47 ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2020-09-02 16:47 ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2020-09-02 17:21 ` Catalin Marinas
2020-09-02 17:21 ` Catalin Marinas
2020-09-02 17:54 ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2020-09-02 17:54 ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2020-09-02 23:03 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2020-09-02 23:03 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2020-09-02 23:08 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2020-09-02 23:08 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2020-09-02 23:08 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2020-09-02 23:08 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2020-09-02 23:07 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2020-09-02 23:07 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2020-09-03 11:08 ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2020-09-03 11:08 ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2020-09-03 14:36 ` Clint Sbisa
2020-09-03 14:36 ` Clint Sbisa
2020-09-03 22:26 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2020-09-03 22:26 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2020-09-07 23:33 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2020-09-07 23:33 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2020-09-10 9:46 ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2020-09-10 9:46 ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2020-09-10 10:54 ` Leon Romanovsky
2020-09-10 10:54 ` Leon Romanovsky
2020-09-10 12:37 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-10 12:37 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-10 15:17 ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2020-09-10 15:17 ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2020-09-10 17:10 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-10 17:10 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-10 21:46 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2020-09-10 21:46 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2020-09-10 23:29 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-10 23:29 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-11 0:39 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2020-09-11 0:39 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2020-09-11 14:21 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-11 14:21 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-11 21:42 ` Clint Sbisa
2020-09-11 21:42 ` Clint Sbisa
2020-09-14 14:17 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-14 14:17 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-14 14:24 ` Clint Sbisa
2020-09-14 14:24 ` Clint Sbisa
2020-09-14 14:38 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-14 14:38 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-14 21:42 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2020-09-14 21:42 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2020-09-14 22:00 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2020-09-14 22:00 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2020-09-14 22:32 ` Clint Sbisa
2020-09-14 22:32 ` Clint Sbisa
2020-09-14 22:57 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-14 22:57 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-14 23:25 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2020-09-14 23:25 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2020-09-15 10:18 ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2020-09-15 10:18 ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2020-09-15 11:05 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-15 11:05 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-15 23:17 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2020-09-15 23:17 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2020-09-15 23:40 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-15 23:40 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-16 7:59 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2020-09-16 7:59 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2020-09-16 12:12 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-16 12:12 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-16 14:09 ` Lorenzo Pieralisi [this message]
2020-09-16 14:09 ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2020-09-16 14:14 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-16 14:14 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-16 23:59 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2020-09-16 23:59 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2020-09-17 10:28 ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2020-09-17 10:28 ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2020-09-17 11:32 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-17 11:32 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-17 14:01 ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2020-09-17 14:01 ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2020-09-17 16:08 ` Will Deacon
2020-09-17 16:08 ` Will Deacon
2020-09-16 12:48 ` Leon Romanovsky
2020-09-16 12:48 ` Leon Romanovsky
2020-09-16 8:33 ` Will Deacon
2020-09-16 8:33 ` Will Deacon
2020-09-16 8:48 ` Catalin Marinas
2020-09-16 8:48 ` Catalin Marinas
2020-09-16 14:15 ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2020-09-16 14:15 ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2020-09-16 17:00 ` Catalin Marinas
2020-09-16 17:00 ` Catalin Marinas
2020-09-16 21:29 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2020-09-16 21:29 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2020-09-16 12:08 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-16 12:08 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-15 23:00 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2020-09-15 23:00 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2020-09-15 23:12 ` Clint Sbisa
2020-09-15 23:12 ` Clint Sbisa
2020-09-14 21:41 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2020-09-14 21:41 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-08-21 15:51 Clint Sbisa
2020-08-21 15:51 ` Clint Sbisa
2020-08-27 14:41 ` Clint Sbisa
2020-08-27 14:41 ` Clint Sbisa
2020-08-31 15:22 ` Clint Sbisa
2020-08-31 15:22 ` Clint Sbisa
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