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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

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

Thread overview: 17+ 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 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] iommu/iova: Optimise rbtree searching Robin Murphy
2017-07-21 11:41 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] iommu/iova: Optimise the padding calculation Robin Murphy
2017-07-21 11:42 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] iommu/iova: Extend rbtree node caching Robin Murphy
2017-07-29  3:57   ` Nate Watterson
2017-07-31 11:42     ` Robin Murphy
2017-08-03 19:41       ` Nate Watterson
2017-08-31  9:46         ` Leizhen (ThunderTown)
2017-09-19  9:42       ` Leizhen (ThunderTown)
2017-09-19 10:07         ` Robin Murphy
2017-07-21 11:42 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] iommu/iova: Make dma_32bit_pfn implicit Robin Murphy
2017-07-26 11:08 ` Joerg Roedel [this message]
2017-07-26 11:17   ` [PATCH v2 0/4] Optimise 64-bit IOVA allocations Leizhen (ThunderTown)
2017-08-08 12:03     ` Ganapatrao Kulkarni
2017-08-09  1:42       ` Leizhen (ThunderTown)
2017-08-09  3:24         ` Ganapatrao Kulkarni
2017-08-09  4:09           ` Leizhen (ThunderTown)

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