From: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
To: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel@vanguardiasur.com.ar>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
Keiichi Watanabe <keiichiw@chromium.org>,
Tomasz Figa <tfiga@chromium.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>,
Linux Media Mailing List <linux-media@vger.kernel.org>,
kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com,
Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>,
Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel@collabora.com>,
matwey@sai.msu.ru
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v1] media: uvcvideo: Cache URB header data before processing
Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2018 01:35:13 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2864865.ZqDiYThxxv@avalon> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAEAJfASOfP5tMuiBtufVbH91MNHgeTqpbmyc42igSnEKMxO1Q@mail.gmail.com>
Hi Ezequiel,
On Wednesday, 8 August 2018 19:29:56 EEST Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
> On 8 August 2018 at 13:22, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > On Wednesday, 8 August 2018 17:20:21 EEST Alan Stern wrote:
> >> On Wed, 8 Aug 2018, Keiichi Watanabe wrote:
> >>> Hi Laurent, Kieran, Tomasz,
> >>>
> >>> Thank you for reviews and suggestions.
> >>> I want to do additional measurements for improving the performance.
> >>>
> >>> Let me clarify my understanding:
> >>> Currently, if the platform doesn't support coherent-DMA (e.g. ARM),
> >>> urb_buffer is allocated by usb_alloc_coherent with
> >>> URB_NO_TRANSFER_DMA_MAP flag instead of using kmalloc.
> >>
> >> Not exactly. You are mixing up allocation with mapping. The speed of
> >> the allocation doesn't matter; all that matters is whether the memory
> >> is cached and when it gets mapped/unmapped.
> >>
> >>> This is because we want to avoid frequent DMA mappings, which are
> >>> generally expensive. However, memories allocated in this way are not
> >>> cached.
> >>>
> >>> So, we wonder if using usb_alloc_coherent is really fast.
> >>> In other words, we want to know which is better:
> >>> "No DMA mapping/Uncached memory" v.s. "Frequent DMA mapping/Cached
> >>> memory".
> >
> > The second option should also be split in two:
> >
> > - cached memory with DMA mapping/unmapping around each transfer
> > - cached memory with DMA mapping/unmapping at allocation/free time, and
> > DMA sync around each transfer
>
> I agree with this, the second one should be better.
>
> I still wonder if there is anyway we can create a helper for this,
> as I am under the impression most USB video4linux drivers
> will want to implement the same.
I agree with you, drivers shouldn't care.
> > The second option should in theory lead to at least slightly better
> > performances, but tests with the pwc driver have reported contradictory
> > results. I'd like to know whether that's also the case with the uvcvideo
> > driver, and if so, why.
>
> I believe that is no longer the case. Matwey measured again and the results
> are what we expected: a single mapping, and sync in the interrupt handler
> is a little bit faster. See https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/8/4/44
>
> 2) dma_unmap and dma_map in the handler:
> 2A) dma_unmap_single call: 28.8 +- 1.5 usec
> 2B) memcpy and the rest: 58 +- 6 usec
> 2C) dma_map_single call: 22 +- 2 usec
> Total: 110 +- 7 usec
>
> 3) dma_sync_single_for_cpu
> 3A) dma_sync_single_for_cpu call: 29.4 +- 1.7 usec
> 3B) memcpy and the rest: 59 +- 6 usec
> 3C) noop (trace events overhead): 5 +- 2 usec
> Total: 93 +- 7 usec
I hadn't caught up with the pwc e-mail thread, I now have, and I'm happy to
see that everything is now properly understood. Thanks again Matwey for your
work.
--
Regards,
Laurent Pinchart
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-08-08 22:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-27 10:34 [RFC PATCH v1] media: uvcvideo: Cache URB header data before processing Keiichi Watanabe
2018-06-27 17:21 ` Kieran Bingham
2018-07-24 4:18 ` Keiichi Watanabe
2018-07-24 11:07 ` Kieran Bingham
2018-07-24 11:03 ` Kieran Bingham
2018-07-30 16:00 ` Laurent Pinchart
2018-07-30 16:03 ` Kieran Bingham
2018-08-08 4:08 ` Tomasz Figa
2018-08-08 8:42 ` Laurent Pinchart
2018-08-08 12:45 ` Keiichi Watanabe
2018-08-08 13:07 ` Kieran Bingham
2018-08-08 14:02 ` Keiichi Watanabe
2018-08-08 14:20 ` Alan Stern
2018-08-08 16:22 ` Laurent Pinchart
2018-08-08 16:27 ` Tomasz Figa
2018-08-08 22:33 ` Laurent Pinchart
2018-08-08 16:29 ` Ezequiel Garcia
2018-08-08 22:35 ` Laurent Pinchart [this message]
2018-08-08 17:04 ` Alan Stern
2018-08-08 22:20 ` Laurent Pinchart
2018-08-09 14:12 ` Alan Stern
2018-08-24 6:06 ` Keiichi Watanabe
2018-08-24 22:00 ` Kieran Bingham
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