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From: Joerg Roedel <joro-zLv9SwRftAIdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
To: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy-5wv7dgnIgG8@public.gmane.org>
Cc: ard.biesheuvel-QSEj5FYQhm4dnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org,
	Jonathan.Cameron-hv44wF8Li93QT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org,
	linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org,
	iommu-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org,
	ray.jui-dY08KVG/lbpWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org,
	thunder.leizhen-hv44wF8Li93QT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org,
	dwmw2-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org,
	linux-arm-kernel-IAPFreCvJWM7uuMidbF8XUB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] Optimise 64-bit IOVA allocations
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2017 13:08:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170726110807.GN15833@8bytes.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1500636791.git.robin.murphy-5wv7dgnIgG8@public.gmane.org>

Hi Robin.

On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 12:41:57PM +0100, Robin Murphy wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> In the wake of the ARM SMMU optimisation efforts, it seems that certain
> workloads (e.g. storage I/O with large scatterlists) probably remain quite
> heavily influenced by IOVA allocation performance. Separately, Ard also
> reported massive performance drops for a graphical desktop on AMD Seattle
> when enabling SMMUs via IORT, which we traced to dma_32bit_pfn in the DMA
> ops domain getting initialised differently for ACPI vs. DT, and exposing
> the overhead of the rbtree slow path. Whilst we could go around trying to
> close up all the little gaps that lead to hitting the slowest case, it
> seems a much better idea to simply make said slowest case a lot less slow.

Do you have some numbers here? How big was the impact before these
patches and how is it with the patches?


	Joerg

WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: joro@8bytes.org (Joerg Roedel)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 0/4] Optimise 64-bit IOVA allocations
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2017 13:08:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170726110807.GN15833@8bytes.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1500636791.git.robin.murphy@arm.com>

Hi Robin.

On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 12:41:57PM +0100, Robin Murphy wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> In the wake of the ARM SMMU optimisation efforts, it seems that certain
> workloads (e.g. storage I/O with large scatterlists) probably remain quite
> heavily influenced by IOVA allocation performance. Separately, Ard also
> reported massive performance drops for a graphical desktop on AMD Seattle
> when enabling SMMUs via IORT, which we traced to dma_32bit_pfn in the DMA
> ops domain getting initialised differently for ACPI vs. DT, and exposing
> the overhead of the rbtree slow path. Whilst we could go around trying to
> close up all the little gaps that lead to hitting the slowest case, it
> seems a much better idea to simply make said slowest case a lot less slow.

Do you have some numbers here? How big was the impact before these
patches and how is it with the patches?


	Joerg

WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
To: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>
Cc: iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dwmw2@infradead.org,
	thunder.leizhen@huawei.com, lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com,
	ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org, Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com,
	nwatters@codeaurora.org, ray.jui@broadcom.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] Optimise 64-bit IOVA allocations
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2017 13:08:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170726110807.GN15833@8bytes.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1500636791.git.robin.murphy@arm.com>

Hi Robin.

On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 12:41:57PM +0100, Robin Murphy wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> In the wake of the ARM SMMU optimisation efforts, it seems that certain
> workloads (e.g. storage I/O with large scatterlists) probably remain quite
> heavily influenced by IOVA allocation performance. Separately, Ard also
> reported massive performance drops for a graphical desktop on AMD Seattle
> when enabling SMMUs via IORT, which we traced to dma_32bit_pfn in the DMA
> ops domain getting initialised differently for ACPI vs. DT, and exposing
> the overhead of the rbtree slow path. Whilst we could go around trying to
> close up all the little gaps that lead to hitting the slowest case, it
> seems a much better idea to simply make said slowest case a lot less slow.

Do you have some numbers here? How big was the impact before these
patches and how is it with the patches?


	Joerg

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-07-26 11:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-07-21 11:41 [PATCH v2 0/4] Optimise 64-bit IOVA allocations Robin Murphy
2017-07-21 11:41 ` Robin Murphy
2017-07-21 11:42 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] iommu/iova: Make dma_32bit_pfn implicit Robin Murphy
2017-07-21 11:42   ` Robin Murphy
     [not found] ` <cover.1500636791.git.robin.murphy-5wv7dgnIgG8@public.gmane.org>
2017-07-21 11:41   ` [PATCH v2 1/4] iommu/iova: Optimise rbtree searching Robin Murphy
2017-07-21 11:41     ` Robin Murphy
2017-07-21 11:41     ` Robin Murphy
2017-07-21 11:41   ` [PATCH v2 2/4] iommu/iova: Optimise the padding calculation Robin Murphy
2017-07-21 11:41     ` Robin Murphy
2017-07-21 11:41     ` Robin Murphy
2017-07-21 11:42   ` [PATCH v2 3/4] iommu/iova: Extend rbtree node caching Robin Murphy
2017-07-21 11:42     ` Robin Murphy
2017-07-21 11:42     ` Robin Murphy
2017-07-29  3:57     ` Nate Watterson
2017-07-29  3:57       ` Nate Watterson
     [not found]       ` <23972edc-e59e-3a43-59a9-d776e64af4d7-sgV2jX0FEOL9JmXXK+q4OQ@public.gmane.org>
2017-07-31 11:42         ` Robin Murphy
2017-07-31 11:42           ` Robin Murphy
2017-07-31 11:42           ` Robin Murphy
2017-08-03 19:41           ` Nate Watterson
2017-08-03 19:41             ` Nate Watterson
     [not found]             ` <a7eb678f-ff78-5c85-6fb0-cba1f82dc502-sgV2jX0FEOL9JmXXK+q4OQ@public.gmane.org>
2017-08-31  9:46               ` Leizhen (ThunderTown)
2017-08-31  9:46                 ` Leizhen (ThunderTown)
2017-08-31  9:46                 ` Leizhen (ThunderTown)
     [not found]           ` <e5d4524e-bfe9-acf1-66c1-ea1d9d319855-5wv7dgnIgG8@public.gmane.org>
2017-09-19  9:42             ` Leizhen (ThunderTown)
2017-09-19  9:42               ` Leizhen (ThunderTown)
2017-09-19  9:42               ` Leizhen (ThunderTown)
     [not found]               ` <59C0E694.6080508-hv44wF8Li93QT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2017-09-19 10:07                 ` Robin Murphy
2017-09-19 10:07                   ` Robin Murphy
2017-09-19 10:07                   ` Robin Murphy
2017-07-26 11:08   ` Joerg Roedel [this message]
2017-07-26 11:08     ` [PATCH v2 0/4] Optimise 64-bit IOVA allocations Joerg Roedel
2017-07-26 11:08     ` Joerg Roedel
     [not found]     ` <20170726110807.GN15833-zLv9SwRftAIdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
2017-07-26 11:17       ` Leizhen (ThunderTown)
2017-07-26 11:17         ` Leizhen (ThunderTown)
2017-07-26 11:17         ` Leizhen (ThunderTown)
2017-08-08 12:03         ` Ganapatrao Kulkarni
2017-08-08 12:03           ` Ganapatrao Kulkarni
2017-08-09  1:42           ` Leizhen (ThunderTown)
2017-08-09  1:42             ` Leizhen (ThunderTown)
2017-08-09  1:42             ` Leizhen (ThunderTown)
     [not found]             ` <598A6877.4050307-hv44wF8Li93QT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2017-08-09  3:24               ` Ganapatrao Kulkarni
2017-08-09  3:24                 ` Ganapatrao Kulkarni
2017-08-09  3:24                 ` Ganapatrao Kulkarni
2017-08-09  4:09                 ` Leizhen (ThunderTown)
2017-08-09  4:09                   ` Leizhen (ThunderTown)
2017-08-09  4:09                   ` Leizhen (ThunderTown)

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