From: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com>
To: Sinan Kaya <okaya@codeaurora.org>
Cc: dmaengine@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] User space to kernel space copy optimization
Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2015 13:40:31 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151205081030.GM1854@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <564A5057.9080203@codeaurora.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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-05 8:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-16 21:53 [RFC] User space to kernel space copy optimization Sinan Kaya
2015-11-16 22:57 ` Jiang, Dave
2015-11-16 23:19 ` Sinan Kaya
2015-11-17 19:28 ` Jiang, Dave
2015-12-05 8:10 ` Vinod Koul [this message]
2015-12-06 4:24 ` Sinan Kaya
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