From: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>, 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: Thu, 17 Sep 2020 11:28:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200917102819.GA2284@e121166-lin.cambridge.arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <28082ccc715a9fba349ae6052d5c917ae02d40fa.camel@kernel.crashing.org>
On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 09:59:28AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Wed, 2020-09-16 at 09:12 -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > > Also we could make this a variable rather than a constant and
> > > choose
> > > a more appropriate set of flags at boot time....
> >
> > It is a function, so it could check the CPU ID for the known broken
> > devices and block them.
>
> Sure, I meant in the abstract way. It's not a hot path so it doesnt
> have to be a static key.
>
> > > > > Why would that be a regression ?
> > > >
> > > > Using the WC submission flow when it doesn't work costs something
> > > > like
> > > > 10% performance vs using the non-WC flow.
> > >
> > > 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
>
> I see. This might have to end up being a TX2 specific hack until the
> end of times...
True - hopefully on platforms that implement normal NC the architectural
way will not trigger user space performance regressions.
Unfortunately if we merge this patch we _do_ know from this thread
that userspace will suffer from a perf regression on TX2.
Either we ignore it or we write some code to prevent it
(ie first step make arch_can_pci_mmap_wc() return 0 on TX2 -
possibly using the arm64 errata detection mechanism).
Adding a new IO mapping API and use it in IB drivers won't solve the TX2
problem - since we still prefer normal NC over device GRE for "WC"
mappings and we would have to "downgrade" TX2 somehow.
Lorenzo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-17 10:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 59+ 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 17:21 ` Catalin Marinas
2020-09-02 17:54 ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2020-09-02 23:03 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2020-09-02 23:08 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2020-09-02 23:08 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2020-09-02 23:07 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2020-09-03 11:08 ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2020-09-03 14:36 ` Clint Sbisa
2020-09-03 22:26 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2020-09-07 23:33 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2020-09-10 9:46 ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2020-09-10 10:54 ` Leon Romanovsky
2020-09-10 12:37 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-10 15:17 ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2020-09-10 17:10 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-10 21:46 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2020-09-10 23:29 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-11 0:39 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2020-09-11 14:21 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-11 21:42 ` Clint Sbisa
2020-09-14 14:17 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-14 14:24 ` Clint Sbisa
2020-09-14 14:38 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-14 21:42 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2020-09-14 22:00 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2020-09-14 22:32 ` Clint Sbisa
2020-09-14 22:57 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-14 23:25 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2020-09-15 10:18 ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2020-09-15 11:05 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-15 23:17 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2020-09-15 23:40 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-16 7:59 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2020-09-16 12:12 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-16 14:09 ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2020-09-16 14:14 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-16 23:59 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2020-09-17 10:28 ` Lorenzo Pieralisi [this message]
2020-09-17 11:32 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-17 14:01 ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2020-09-17 16:08 ` Will Deacon
2020-09-16 12:48 ` Leon Romanovsky
2020-09-16 8:33 ` Will Deacon
2020-09-16 8:48 ` Catalin Marinas
2020-09-16 14:15 ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2020-09-16 17:00 ` Catalin Marinas
2020-09-16 21:29 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2020-09-16 12:08 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-15 23:00 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2020-09-15 23:12 ` Clint Sbisa
2020-09-14 21:41 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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