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,
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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
next prev 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 11:42 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] iommu/iova: Make dma_32bit_pfn implicit 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 ` [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
[not found] ` <23972edc-e59e-3a43-59a9-d776e64af4d7-sgV2jX0FEOL9JmXXK+q4OQ@public.gmane.org>
2017-07-31 11:42 ` Robin Murphy
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)
[not found] ` <e5d4524e-bfe9-acf1-66c1-ea1d9d319855-5wv7dgnIgG8@public.gmane.org>
2017-09-19 9:42 ` Leizhen (ThunderTown)
[not found] ` <59C0E694.6080508-hv44wF8Li93QT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2017-09-19 10:07 ` Robin Murphy
2017-07-26 11:08 ` Joerg Roedel [this message]
[not found] ` <20170726110807.GN15833-zLv9SwRftAIdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
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)
[not found] ` <598A6877.4050307-hv44wF8Li93QT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2017-08-09 3:24 ` Ganapatrao Kulkarni
2017-08-09 4:09 ` Leizhen (ThunderTown)
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