[RFC] User space to kernel space copy optimization

[dave.jiang@intel.com (Jiang, Dave)]

On Mon, 2015-11-16 at 21:53 +0000, Sinan Kaya wrote:
> One of the things I'm interested in is to use a memcpy capable DMA
> engine HW to optimize user space and kernel space parameter copying.

Have you looked at why NET_DMA was deprecated and using DMA engine to
do kernel->user copy could be a problem?
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/
?id=77873803363c

> 
> Of course, this will not be viable for all parameter sizes but I can
> see
> this being useful. The goal is to save power in the cost of little
> performance.
> 
> Before I go and invent my own mechanism, I'd like to have ideas on
> what
> an acceptable solution would look like. Especially, I'm looking for a
> generic implementation that could plug into any DMA engine HW.
> 
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