Re: [PATCH v1] dmaengine: tegra: Use relaxed versions of readl/writel

Dmitry Osipenko
2019-04-26T12:42:44Z

26.04.2019 15:18, Dmitry Osipenko пишет:
> 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.
>

Jon, it occurred to me that there still should be a problem with the
writel() ordering in the driver because writel() ensures that memory
stores are completed *before* the write occurs and hence translates into
iowmb() + writel_relaxed() [0]. Thus the last write will always happen
asynchronously in regards to clk accesses.

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