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From: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
To: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	<x86@kernel.org>, <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
	Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: [PATCHv2 0/3]: dma,x86,xen: reduce SWIOTLB usage in Xen guests
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 15:25:03 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1415805906-27316-1-git-send-email-david.vrabel@citrix.com> (raw)

On systems where DMA addresses and physical addresses are not 1:1
(such as Xen PV guests), the generic dma_get_required_mask() will not
return the correct mask (since it uses max_pfn).

Some device drivers (such as mptsas, mpt2sas) use
dma_get_required_mask() to set the device's DMA mask to allow them to use
only 32-bit DMA addresses in hardware structures.  This results in
unnecessary use of the SWIOTLB if DMA addresses are more than 32-bits,
impacting performance significantly.

This series allows Xen PV guests to override the default
dma_get_required_mask() with one that calculated the DMA mask from the
maximum MFN (and not the PFN).

The first patch removes a duplicated function between ia64 and common
since we want a common implementation usage by ia64 and x86.

Changes in v2:
- split x86 and xen changes into separate patches

David


             reply	other threads:[~2014-11-12 15:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-12 15:25 David Vrabel [this message]
2014-11-12 15:25 ` [PATCH 1/3] dma,ia64: add dma_get_required_mask_from_max_pfn() David Vrabel
2014-11-14 15:11   ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/3] dma, ia64: " Stefano Stabellini
2014-11-12 15:25 ` [PATCH 2/3] x86: allow dma_get_required_mask() to be overridden David Vrabel
2014-11-13 10:25   ` [Xen-devel] " Jan Beulich
2014-11-13 10:30     ` David Vrabel
2014-11-13 10:32     ` Jan Beulich
2014-11-14 15:19   ` Stefano Stabellini
2014-11-12 15:25 ` [PATCH 3/3] x86/xen: use the maximum MFN to calculate the required DMA mask David Vrabel
2014-11-12 15:55   ` [Xen-devel] " Jan Beulich
2014-11-12 16:59     ` David Vrabel
2014-11-12 17:18       ` Jan Beulich
2014-11-13  9:57     ` Jan Beulich
2014-11-13 10:38     ` Andrew Cooper
2014-11-13 10:53       ` Jan Beulich

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