From: Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>,
Jose Abreu <Jose.Abreu@synopsys.com>,
Joao Pinto <Joao.Pinto@synopsys.com>,
Alexandre Torgue <alexandre.torgue@st.com>,
Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@bootlin.com>,
Networking <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@csie.org>,
Maxime Coquelin <mcoquelin.stm32@gmail.com>,
Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com>,
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Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 3/3] net: stmmac: Introducing support for Page Pool
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2019 15:49:41 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190704124941.GA9617@apalos> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK8P3a3GC6f-xHG7MqZRLhY66Ui4HQVi=4WXR703wqfMNY6A5A@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Jul 04, 2019 at 02:14:28PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 4, 2019 at 12:31 PM Ilias Apalodimas
> <ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org> wrote:
> > > On Wed, 3 Jul 2019 12:37:50 +0200
> > > Jose Abreu <Jose.Abreu@synopsys.com> wrote:
>
> > 1. page pool allocs packet. The API doesn't sync but i *think* you don't have to
> > explicitly since the CPU won't touch that buffer until the NAPI handler kicks
> > in. On the napi handler you need to dma_sync_single_for_cpu() and process the
> > packet.
>
> > So bvottom line i *think* we can skip the dma_sync_single_for_device() on the
> > initial allocation *only*. If am terribly wrong please let me know :)
>
> I think you have to do a sync_single_for_device /somewhere/ before the
> buffer is given to the device. On a non-cache-coherent machine with
> a write-back cache, there may be dirty cache lines that get written back
> after the device DMA's data into it (e.g. from a previous memset
> from before the buffer got freed), so you absolutely need to flush any
> dirty cache lines on it first.
Ok my bad here i forgot to add "when coherency is there", since the driver
i had in mind runs on such a device (i think this is configurable though so i'll
add the sync explicitly to make sure we won't break any configurations).
In general you are right, thanks for the explanation!
> You may also need to invalidate the cache lines in the following
> sync_single_for_cpu() to eliminate clean cache lines with stale data
> that got there when speculatively reading between the cache-invalidate
> and the DMA.
>
> Arnd
Thanks!
/Ilias
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-04 12:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 87+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-03 10:37 [PATCH net-next 0/3] net: stmmac: Some performance improvements and a fix Jose Abreu
2019-07-03 10:37 ` [PATCH net-next 1/3] net: stmmac: Implement RX Coalesce Frames setting Jose Abreu
2019-07-03 20:41 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-07-03 10:37 ` [PATCH net-next 2/3] net: stmmac: Fix descriptors address being in > 32 bits address space Jose Abreu
2019-07-03 10:37 ` [PATCH net-next 3/3] net: stmmac: Introducing support for Page Pool Jose Abreu
2019-07-03 10:40 ` Jose Abreu
2019-07-04 9:39 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2019-07-04 14:45 ` Jose Abreu
2019-07-04 15:09 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2019-07-04 15:18 ` Jose Abreu
2019-07-04 15:33 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2019-07-04 9:48 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2019-07-04 10:00 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2019-07-04 10:13 ` Jose Abreu
2019-07-04 11:11 ` Ilias Apalodimas
2019-07-04 11:54 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2019-07-04 12:04 ` Ilias Apalodimas
2019-07-04 12:59 ` Jose Abreu
2019-07-04 13:06 ` Ilias Apalodimas
2019-07-04 10:30 ` Ilias Apalodimas
2019-07-04 12:14 ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-07-04 12:49 ` Ilias Apalodimas [this message]
2019-07-17 18:58 ` Jon Hunter
2019-07-18 7:29 ` Jose Abreu
2019-07-18 7:48 ` Jose Abreu
2019-07-18 9:16 ` Jon Hunter
2019-07-19 7:51 ` Jose Abreu
2019-07-19 8:37 ` Jon Hunter
2019-07-19 8:44 ` Jose Abreu
2019-07-19 8:49 ` Jon Hunter
2019-07-19 10:25 ` Jose Abreu
2019-07-19 12:28 ` Jose Abreu
2019-07-19 13:33 ` Jon Hunter
2019-07-19 12:30 ` Jon Hunter
2019-07-19 12:32 ` Jose Abreu
2019-07-19 13:35 ` Jon Hunter
2019-07-22 7:23 ` Jose Abreu
2019-07-22 9:37 ` Jon Hunter
2019-07-22 9:47 ` Jose Abreu
2019-07-22 9:57 ` Jose Abreu
2019-07-22 10:27 ` Jon Hunter
2019-07-22 10:18 ` Ilias Apalodimas
2019-07-22 11:11 ` Lars Persson
2019-07-22 11:39 ` Jose Abreu
2019-07-22 12:05 ` Jon Hunter
2019-07-22 14:04 ` Jose Abreu
2019-07-23 8:14 ` Jose Abreu
2019-07-23 10:01 ` Jon Hunter
2019-07-23 10:07 ` Jose Abreu
2019-07-23 10:29 ` Robin Murphy
2019-07-23 11:22 ` Jose Abreu
2019-07-23 12:09 ` Jon Hunter
2019-07-23 13:19 ` Robin Murphy
2019-07-23 21:39 ` Jon Hunter
2019-07-24 10:03 ` Robin Murphy
2019-07-23 18:51 ` David Miller
2019-07-24 8:54 ` Ilias Apalodimas
2019-07-24 9:43 ` Jose Abreu
2019-07-24 9:53 ` Ilias Apalodimas
2019-07-24 10:04 ` Jose Abreu
2019-07-24 11:10 ` Jon Hunter
2019-07-24 11:34 ` Jose Abreu
2019-07-24 11:58 ` Jon Hunter
2019-07-25 7:44 ` Jose Abreu
2019-07-25 9:45 ` Jon Hunter
2019-07-25 11:39 ` Ilias Apalodimas
2019-07-23 10:38 ` Jon Hunter
2019-07-23 10:49 ` Jose Abreu
2019-07-23 11:58 ` Jon Hunter
2019-07-23 12:51 ` Jose Abreu
2019-07-23 13:34 ` Jon Hunter
2019-07-29 9:45 ` Mikko Perttunen
2019-07-25 13:20 ` Jon Hunter
2019-07-25 13:26 ` Jose Abreu
2019-07-25 14:25 ` Jon Hunter
2019-07-25 15:12 ` Jose Abreu
2019-07-26 14:11 ` Jon Hunter
2019-07-27 15:56 ` Jose Abreu
2019-07-29 8:16 ` Jose Abreu
2019-07-29 10:55 ` Jon Hunter
2019-07-29 11:29 ` Jose Abreu
2019-07-29 11:52 ` Robin Murphy
2019-07-29 14:08 ` Jose Abreu
2019-07-29 21:33 ` Jon Hunter
2019-07-30 9:39 ` Jose Abreu
2019-07-30 13:36 ` Jon Hunter
2019-07-30 13:58 ` Jose Abreu
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