From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: vinod.koul@intel.com (Vinod Koul) Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2015 13:40:31 +0530 Subject: [RFC] User space to kernel space copy optimization In-Reply-To: <564A5057.9080203@codeaurora.org> References: <564A5057.9080203@codeaurora.org> Message-ID: <20151205081030.GM1854@localhost> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 04:53:27PM -0500, 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. > > 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. Do you have a proposal on how this generic solution should look like, broad contours of the design to start off with and we can start from that point -- ~Vinod