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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Cc: "Russell King - ARM Linux" <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
	"Christoph Hellwig" <hch@infradead.org>,
	"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"amd-gfx list" <amd-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org>,
	"moderated list:DMA BUFFER SHARING FRAMEWORK"
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	"Jerome Glisse" <jglisse@redhat.com>,
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	dri-devel <dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>,
	"Dan Williams" <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
	"Thierry Reding" <treding@nvidia.com>,
	"Logan Gunthorpe" <logang@deltatee.com>,
	"Christian König" <christian.koenig@amd.com>,
	"Linux ARM" <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
	"open list:DMA BUFFER SHARING FRAMEWORK"
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Subject: Re: [Linaro-mm-sig] noveau vs arm dma ops
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2018 02:24:22 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180426092422.GA26825@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKMK7uG9R6paoP4BmvqDVUP_4Db4Dz8MSXeLwUBMYaORa5-kVw@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 11:20:44AM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> The above is already what we're implementing in i915, at least
> conceptually (it all boils down to clflush instructions because those
> both invalidate and flush).

The clwb instruction that just writes back dirty cache lines might
be very interesting for the x86 non-coherent dma case.  A lot of
architectures use their equivalent to prepare to to device transfers.

> One architectural guarantee we're exploiting is that prefetched (and
> hence non-dirty) cachelines will never get written back, but dropped
> instead.

And to make this work you'll need exactly this guarantee.

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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org>
To: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter-/w4YWyX8dFk@public.gmane.org>
Cc: "moderated list:DMA BUFFER SHARING FRAMEWORK"
	<linaro-mm-sig-cunTk1MwBs8s++Sfvej+rw@public.gmane.org>,
	"Russell King - ARM Linux"
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	"amd-gfx list"
	<amd-gfx-PD4FTy7X32lNgt0PjOBp9y5qC8QIuHrW@public.gmane.org>,
	"Linux Kernel Mailing List"
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	"Jerome Glisse" <jglisse-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>,
	iommu-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org,
	dri-devel
	<dri-devel-PD4FTy7X32lNgt0PjOBp9y5qC8QIuHrW@public.gmane.org>,
	"Dan Williams"
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	"Thierry Reding"
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	"Logan Gunthorpe"
	<logang-OTvnGxWRz7hWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>,
	"Christian König" <christian.koenig-5C7GfCeVMHo@public.gmane.org>,
	"Linux ARM"
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	"open list:DMA BUFFER SHARING FRAMEWORK"
	<linux-media-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [Linaro-mm-sig] noveau vs arm dma ops
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2018 02:24:22 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180426092422.GA26825@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKMK7uG9R6paoP4BmvqDVUP_4Db4Dz8MSXeLwUBMYaORa5-kVw-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>

On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 11:20:44AM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> The above is already what we're implementing in i915, at least
> conceptually (it all boils down to clflush instructions because those
> both invalidate and flush).

The clwb instruction that just writes back dirty cache lines might
be very interesting for the x86 non-coherent dma case.  A lot of
architectures use their equivalent to prepare to to device transfers.

> One architectural guarantee we're exploiting is that prefetched (and
> hence non-dirty) cachelines will never get written back, but dropped
> instead.

And to make this work you'll need exactly this guarantee.

WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: hch@infradead.org (Christoph Hellwig)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [Linaro-mm-sig] noveau vs arm dma ops
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2018 02:24:22 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180426092422.GA26825@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKMK7uG9R6paoP4BmvqDVUP_4Db4Dz8MSXeLwUBMYaORa5-kVw@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 11:20:44AM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> The above is already what we're implementing in i915, at least
> conceptually (it all boils down to clflush instructions because those
> both invalidate and flush).

The clwb instruction that just writes back dirty cache lines might
be very interesting for the x86 non-coherent dma case.  A lot of
architectures use their equivalent to prepare to to device transfers.

> One architectural guarantee we're exploiting is that prefetched (and
> hence non-dirty) cachelines will never get written back, but dropped
> instead.

And to make this work you'll need exactly this guarantee.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-04-26  9:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 161+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-25 10:59 [PATCH 1/8] lib/scatterlist: add sg_set_dma_addr() helper Christian König
2018-03-25 10:59 ` Christian König
2018-03-25 10:59 ` [PATCH 2/8] PCI: Add pci_find_common_upstream_dev() Christian König
2018-03-25 10:59   ` Christian König
2018-03-28 12:38   ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-03-28 15:07     ` Christian König
2018-03-28 15:07       ` Christian König
2018-03-28 15:47       ` Logan Gunthorpe
2018-03-28 16:02         ` Christian König
2018-03-28 16:02           ` Christian König
2018-03-28 16:25           ` Logan Gunthorpe
2018-03-28 18:28             ` Christian König
2018-03-28 18:28               ` Christian König
2018-03-28 18:57               ` Logan Gunthorpe
2018-03-28 19:44                 ` Christian König
2018-03-28 19:44                   ` Christian König
2018-03-28 19:53                   ` Logan Gunthorpe
2018-03-29 11:44                     ` Christian König
2018-03-29 15:45                       ` Logan Gunthorpe
2018-03-29 16:10                         ` Christian König
2018-03-29 16:10                           ` Christian König
2018-03-29 16:25                           ` Logan Gunthorpe
2018-03-29 18:15                             ` Christian König
2018-03-29 18:15                               ` Christian König
2018-03-30  1:58                             ` Jerome Glisse
2018-03-30  1:58                               ` Jerome Glisse
2018-03-30  6:33                               ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-03-30  6:33                                 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-03-30 15:25                                 ` Jerome Glisse
2018-03-30 18:46                               ` Logan Gunthorpe
2018-03-30 19:45                                 ` Jerome Glisse
2018-03-30 19:45                                   ` Jerome Glisse
2018-04-02 17:02                                   ` Logan Gunthorpe
2018-04-02 17:20                                     ` Jerome Glisse
2018-04-02 17:20                                       ` Jerome Glisse
2018-04-02 17:37                                       ` Logan Gunthorpe
2018-04-02 19:16                                         ` Jerome Glisse
2018-04-02 19:16                                           ` Jerome Glisse
2018-04-02 19:32                                           ` Logan Gunthorpe
2018-04-02 19:45                                             ` Jerome Glisse
2018-04-02 19:45                                               ` Jerome Glisse
     [not found]                     ` <CADnq5_P-z=Noos_jaME9_CERri3C-m2hPPvx2bArr36O=1FnrA@mail.gmail.com>
2018-03-29 14:37                       ` Alex Deucher
2018-03-29 14:37                         ` Alex Deucher
2018-03-25 10:59 ` [PATCH 3/8] PCI: Add pci_peer_traffic_supported() Christian König
2018-03-25 10:59   ` Christian König
2018-03-25 10:59 ` [PATCH 4/8] dma-buf: add peer2peer flag Christian König
2018-03-25 10:59   ` Christian König
2018-03-29  6:57   ` Daniel Vetter
2018-03-29  6:57     ` Daniel Vetter
2018-03-29 11:34     ` Christian König
2018-03-29 11:34       ` Christian König
2018-04-03  9:09       ` Daniel Vetter
2018-04-03  9:09         ` Daniel Vetter
2018-04-03 17:06         ` Jerome Glisse
2018-04-03 17:06           ` Jerome Glisse
2018-04-03 18:08           ` Daniel Vetter
2018-04-03 18:08             ` Daniel Vetter
2018-04-16 12:39             ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-16 12:39               ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-16 13:38               ` Daniel Vetter
2018-04-16 13:38                 ` Daniel Vetter
2018-04-19  8:16                 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-19  8:16                   ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-20  7:13                   ` Daniel Vetter
2018-04-20  7:13                     ` Daniel Vetter
2018-04-20  8:58                     ` Christian König
2018-04-20  8:58                       ` Christian König
2018-04-20 10:17                       ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-20 10:17                         ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-20 10:44                         ` Christian König
2018-04-20 10:44                           ` Christian König
2018-04-20 12:46                           ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-20 15:21                             ` [Linaro-mm-sig] " Daniel Vetter
2018-04-24 18:48                               ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-24 18:48                                 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-24 19:32                                 ` Daniel Vetter
2018-04-24 19:32                                   ` Daniel Vetter
2018-04-25  5:48                                   ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-25  5:48                                     ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-25  6:10                                     ` Alex Deucher
2018-04-25  6:10                                       ` Alex Deucher
2018-04-25  6:13                                     ` Daniel Vetter
2018-04-25  6:13                                       ` Daniel Vetter
2018-04-25  6:23                                       ` Daniel Vetter
2018-04-25  6:23                                         ` Daniel Vetter
2018-04-25  6:43                                         ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-25  6:43                                           ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-25  7:02                                           ` Daniel Vetter
2018-04-25  7:02                                             ` Daniel Vetter
2018-04-25  7:09                                             ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-25  7:09                                               ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-25  7:30                                               ` Daniel Vetter
2018-04-25  7:30                                                 ` Daniel Vetter
2018-04-25  7:56                                                 ` Thierry Reding
2018-04-25  7:56                                                   ` Thierry Reding
2018-04-25  8:55                                                   ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-25  8:55                                                     ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-25  7:43                                               ` Thierry Reding
2018-04-25  7:43                                                 ` Thierry Reding
2018-04-25  7:41                                           ` Thierry Reding
2018-04-25  7:41                                             ` Thierry Reding
2018-04-25  8:54                                             ` noveau vs arm dma ops Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-25  8:54                                               ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-25  8:54                                               ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-25  9:25                                               ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2018-04-25  9:25                                                 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2018-04-25 10:04                                               ` Daniel Vetter
2018-04-25 10:04                                                 ` Daniel Vetter
2018-04-25 10:04                                                 ` Daniel Vetter
2018-04-25 15:33                                                 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-25 15:33                                                   ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-25 15:33                                                   ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-25 21:35                                                   ` Daniel Vetter
2018-04-25 21:35                                                     ` Daniel Vetter
2018-04-25 21:35                                                     ` Daniel Vetter
2018-04-25 23:26                                                     ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2018-04-25 23:26                                                       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2018-04-26  9:17                                                       ` Daniel Vetter
2018-04-26  9:17                                                         ` Daniel Vetter
2018-04-26  9:17                                                         ` Daniel Vetter
2018-04-26  9:09                                                     ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-26  9:09                                                       ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-26  9:09                                                       ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-26  9:45                                                       ` Daniel Vetter
2018-04-26  9:45                                                         ` Daniel Vetter
2018-04-26  9:45                                                         ` Daniel Vetter
2018-04-26 11:12                                                       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2018-04-26 11:12                                                         ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2018-04-25 22:54                                                   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2018-04-25 22:54                                                     ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2018-04-26  9:13                                                     ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-26  9:13                                                       ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-26  9:13                                                       ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-26  9:20                                                     ` [Linaro-mm-sig] " Daniel Vetter
2018-04-26  9:20                                                       ` Daniel Vetter
2018-04-26  9:20                                                       ` Daniel Vetter
2018-04-26  9:24                                                       ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2018-04-26  9:24                                                         ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-26  9:24                                                         ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-26  9:39                                                         ` Daniel Vetter
2018-04-26  9:39                                                           ` Daniel Vetter
2018-04-26  9:39                                                           ` Daniel Vetter
2018-04-25  6:24                                       ` [Linaro-mm-sig] [PATCH 4/8] dma-buf: add peer2peer flag Alex Deucher
2018-04-25  6:24                                         ` Alex Deucher
2018-04-25  6:41                                         ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-25  6:41                                           ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-25 17:44                                           ` Alex Deucher
2018-04-25 17:44                                             ` Alex Deucher
2018-04-25 18:38                                             ` Dan Williams
2018-04-25 18:38                                               ` Dan Williams
2018-05-04 12:45                                             ` Lucas Stach
2018-03-25 10:59 ` [PATCH 5/8] drm/amdgpu: print DMA-buf status in debugfs Christian König
2018-03-25 10:59   ` Christian König
2018-03-25 10:59 ` [PATCH 6/8] drm/amdgpu: note that we can handle peer2peer DMA-buf Christian König
2018-03-25 10:59   ` Christian König
2018-03-25 10:59 ` [PATCH 7/8] drm/amdgpu: add amdgpu_gem_attach Christian König
2018-03-25 10:59   ` Christian König
2018-03-25 11:00 ` [PATCH 8/8] drm/amdgpu: add support for exporting VRAM using DMA-buf Christian König
2018-03-25 11:00   ` Christian König
2018-03-28 12:37 ` [PATCH 1/8] lib/scatterlist: add sg_set_dma_addr() helper Christoph Hellwig
2018-03-28 12:37   ` Christoph Hellwig

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