From: "hch@lst.de" <hch@lst.de>
To: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>
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Subject: Re: Constantly map and unmap of streaming DMA buffers with IOMMU backend might cause serious performance problem
Date: Fri, 15 May 2020 16:45:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200515144522.GA25652@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <36d67d68-4381-c7a7-dcf1-6383bd9ae0ad@arm.com>
On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 01:10:21PM +0100, Robin Murphy wrote:
>> Meanwhile, for the safety of buffers, lower-layer drivers need to make certain the buffers have already been unmapped in iommu before those buffers go back to buddy for other users.
>
> That sounds like it would only have benefit in a very small set of specific
> circumstances, and would be very difficult to generalise to buffers that
> are mapped via dma_map_page() or dma_map_single(). Furthermore, a
> high-level API that affects a low-level driver's interpretation of
> mid-layer API calls without the mid-layer's knowledge sounds like a hideous
> abomination of anti-design. If a mid-layer API lends itself to inefficiency
> at the lower level, it would seem a lot cleaner and more robust to extend
> *that* API for stateful buffer reuse. Failing that, it might possibly be
> appropriate to approach this at the driver level - many of the cleverer
> network drivers already implement buffer pools to recycle mapped SKBs
> internally, couldn't the "zip driver" simply try doing something like that
> for itself?
Exactly. If you upper consumer of the DMA API keeps reusing the same
pages just map them once and use dma_sync_* to transfer ownership as
needed.
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From: "hch@lst.de" <hch@lst.de>
To: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>
Cc: Song Bao Hua <song.bao.hua@hisilicon.com>,
"davidm@hpl.hp.com" <davidm@hpl.hp.com>,
"ralf@oss.sgi.com" <ralf@oss.sgi.com>,
Linuxarm <linuxarm@huawei.com>,
"linux@armlinux.org.uk" <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
"iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org"
<iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
"sailer@ife.ee.ethz.ch" <sailer@ife.ee.ethz.ch>,
"Jay.Estabrook@compaq.com" <Jay.Estabrook@compaq.com>,
"dagum@barrel.engr.sgi.com" <dagum@barrel.engr.sgi.com>,
"andrea@suse.de" <andrea@suse.de>,
"grundler@cup.hp.com" <grundler@cup.hp.com>,
"jens.axboe@oracle.com" <jens.axboe@oracle.com>,
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Subject: Re: Constantly map and unmap of streaming DMA buffers with IOMMU backend might cause serious performance problem
Date: Fri, 15 May 2020 16:45:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200515144522.GA25652@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <36d67d68-4381-c7a7-dcf1-6383bd9ae0ad@arm.com>
On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 01:10:21PM +0100, Robin Murphy wrote:
>> Meanwhile, for the safety of buffers, lower-layer drivers need to make certain the buffers have already been unmapped in iommu before those buffers go back to buddy for other users.
>
> That sounds like it would only have benefit in a very small set of specific
> circumstances, and would be very difficult to generalise to buffers that
> are mapped via dma_map_page() or dma_map_single(). Furthermore, a
> high-level API that affects a low-level driver's interpretation of
> mid-layer API calls without the mid-layer's knowledge sounds like a hideous
> abomination of anti-design. If a mid-layer API lends itself to inefficiency
> at the lower level, it would seem a lot cleaner and more robust to extend
> *that* API for stateful buffer reuse. Failing that, it might possibly be
> appropriate to approach this at the driver level - many of the cleverer
> network drivers already implement buffer pools to recycle mapped SKBs
> internally, couldn't the "zip driver" simply try doing something like that
> for itself?
Exactly. If you upper consumer of the DMA API keeps reusing the same
pages just map them once and use dma_sync_* to transfer ownership as
needed.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-15 14:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-15 8:19 Constantly map and unmap of streaming DMA buffers with IOMMU backend might cause serious performance problem Song Bao Hua
2020-05-15 8:19 ` Song Bao Hua
2020-05-15 12:10 ` Robin Murphy
2020-05-15 12:10 ` Robin Murphy
2020-05-15 14:45 ` hch [this message]
2020-05-15 14:45 ` hch
2020-05-15 21:33 ` Song Bao Hua
2020-05-15 21:33 ` Song Bao Hua
2020-05-15 22:12 ` Robin Murphy
2020-05-15 22:12 ` Robin Murphy
2020-05-15 22:45 ` Song Bao Hua
2020-05-15 22:45 ` Song Bao Hua
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