linux-usb.vger.kernel.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: shuah <shuah@kernel.org>
To: Suwan Kim <suwan.kim027@gmail.com>,
	stern@rowland.harvard.edu, valentina.manea.m@gmail.com,
	gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Cc: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	shuah <shuah@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] usbip: Skip DMA mapping and unmapping for urb at vhci
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2019 18:11:54 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <10a4f10a-d271-9331-b847-bdc06f9fc9cf@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190621174553.28862-2-suwan.kim027@gmail.com>

Hi Suwan,

On 6/21/19 11:45 AM, Suwan Kim wrote:
> vhci doesn’t do dma for remote device. Actually, the real dma
> operation is done by network card driver. So, vhci doesn’t use and
> need dma address of transfer buffer of urb.
> 
> When vhci supports SG, it is useful to use native SG list instead
> of mapped SG list because dma mapping fnuction can adjust the
> number of SG list that is urb->num_mapped_sgs.
> 
> But hcd provides dma mapping and unmapping function by defualt.

Typo "defualt"

> Moreover, it causes unnecessary dma mapping and unmapping which
> will be done again at the NIC driver and it wastes CPU cycles.
> So, implement map_urb_for_dma and unmap_urb_for_dma function for
> vhci in order to skip the dma mapping and unmapping procedure.
> 

How did you verify that unnecessary dma map/unmap are happening?
How many CPU cycles did you manage to reduce with this change?

thanks,
-- Shuah

  reply	other threads:[~2019-06-29  0:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-06-21 17:45 [PATCH 0/2] usbip: Implement SG support to vhci Suwan Kim
2019-06-21 17:45 ` [PATCH 1/2] usbip: Skip DMA mapping and unmapping for urb at vhci Suwan Kim
2019-06-29  0:11   ` shuah [this message]
2019-07-01  9:29     ` Suwan Kim
2019-06-21 17:45 ` [PATCH 2/2] usbip: Implement SG support to vhci Suwan Kim
2019-06-21 20:05   ` Alan Stern
2019-06-24 14:58     ` Suwan Kim
2019-06-24 17:24       ` Alan Stern
2019-07-04 17:24         ` Suwan Kim
2019-07-05  1:41           ` Alan Stern
2019-07-05  9:07             ` Suwan Kim
2019-06-22 10:40   ` kbuild test robot

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=10a4f10a-d271-9331-b847-bdc06f9fc9cf@kernel.org \
    --to=shuah@kernel.org \
    --cc=gregkh@linuxfoundation.org \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=linux-usb@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=stern@rowland.harvard.edu \
    --cc=suwan.kim027@gmail.com \
    --cc=valentina.manea.m@gmail.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body. 
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).