From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dmitry Osipenko Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] dmaengine: tegra: Use relaxed versions of readl/writel Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2019 15:18:40 +0300 Message-ID: <49392c02-6dcc-9a95-0035-27c4c0d14820@gmail.com> References: <20190424231708.21219-1-digetx@gmail.com> <4a315b63-bc71-3c3e-f1ae-8638bcf4033d@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Jon Hunter , Laxman Dewangan , Vinod Koul , Thierry Reding Cc: dmaengine@vger.kernel.org, linux-tegra@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-tegra@vger.kernel.org 26.04.2019 14:13, Jon Hunter пишет: > > On 26/04/2019 11:45, Dmitry Osipenko wrote: >> 26.04.2019 12:52, Jon Hunter пишет: >>> >>> On 25/04/2019 00:17, Dmitry Osipenko wrote: >>>> The readl/writel functions are inserting memory barrier in order to >>>> ensure that memory stores are completed. On Tegra20 and Tegra30 this >>>> results in L2 cache syncing which isn't a cheapest operation. The >>>> tegra20-apb-dma driver doesn't need to synchronize generic memory >>>> accesses, hence use the relaxed versions of the functions. >>> >>> Do you mean device-io accesses here as this is not generic memory? >> >> Yes. The IOMEM accesses within are always ordered and uncached, while >> generic memory accesses are out-of-order and cached. >> >>> Although there may not be any issues with this change, I think I need a >>> bit more convincing that we should do this given that we have had it >>> this way for sometime and I would not like to see us introduce any >>> regressions as this point without being 100% certain we would not. >>> Ideally, if I had some good extensive tests I could run to hammer the >>> DMA for all configurations with different combinations of channels >>> running simultaneously then we could test this, but right now I don't :-( >>> >>> Have you ... >>> 1. Tested both cyclic and scatter-gather transfers? >>> 2. Stress tested simultaneous transfers with various different >>> configurations? >>> 3. Quantified the actual performance benefit of this change so we can >>> understand how much of a performance boost this offers? >> >> Actually I found a case where this change causes a problem, I'm seeing >> I2C transfer timeout for touchscreen and it breaks the touch input. >> Indeed, I haven't tested this patch very well. >> >> And the fix is this: >> >> @@ -1592,6 +1592,8 @@ static int tegra_dma_runtime_suspend(struct device >> *dev) >> TEGRA_APBDMA_CHAN_WCOUNT); >> } >> >> + dsb(); >> + >> clk_disable_unprepare(tdma->dma_clk); >> >> return 0; >> >> >> Apparently the problem is that CLK/DMA (PPSB/APB) accesses are >> incoherent and CPU disables clock before writes are reaching DMA controller. >> >> I'd say that cyclic and scatter-gather transfers are now tested. I also >> made some more testing of simultaneous transfers. >> >> Quantifying performance probably won't be easy to make as the DMA >> read/writes are not on any kind of code's hot-path. > > So why make the change? For consistency. >> Jon, are you still insisting about to drop this patch or you will be >> fine with the v2 that will have the dsb() in place? > > If we can't quantify the performance gain, then it is difficult to > justify the change. I would also be concerned if that is the only place > we need an explicit dsb. Maybe it won't hurt to add dsb to the ISR as well. But okay, let's drop this patch for now.