[PATCH 5.17 215/219] dma-direct: avoid redundant memory sync for swiotlb

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-04-18T12:37:33Z

From: Chao Gao <chao.gao@intel.com>

commit 9e02977bfad006af328add9434c8bffa40e053bb upstream.

When we looked into FIO performance with swiotlb enabled in VM, we found
swiotlb_bounce() is always called one more time than expected for each DMA
read request.

It turns out that the bounce buffer is copied to original DMA buffer twice
after the completion of a DMA request (one is done by in
dma_direct_sync_single_for_cpu(), the other by swiotlb_tbl_unmap_single()).
But the content in bounce buffer actually doesn't change between the two
rounds of copy. So, one round of copy is redundant.

Pass DMA_ATTR_SKIP_CPU_SYNC flag to swiotlb_tbl_unmap_single() to
skip the memory copy in it.

This fix increases FIO 64KB sequential read throughput in a guest with
swiotlb=force by 5.6%.

Fixes: 55897af63091 ("dma-direct: merge swiotlb_dma_ops into the dma_direct code")
Reported-by: Wang Zhaoyang1 <zhaoyang1.wang@intel.com>
Reported-by: Gao Liang <liang.gao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Chao Gao <chao.gao@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
kernel/dma/direct.h | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/kernel/dma/direct.h
+++ b/kernel/dma/direct.h
@@ -114,6 +114,7 @@ static inline void dma_direct_unmap_page
dma_direct_sync_single_for_cpu(dev, addr, size, dir);

if (unlikely(is_swiotlb_buffer(dev, phys)))
- swiotlb_tbl_unmap_single(dev, phys, size, dir, attrs);
+ swiotlb_tbl_unmap_single(dev, phys, size, dir,
+ attrs | DMA_ATTR_SKIP_CPU_SYNC);
}
#endif /* _KERNEL_DMA_DIRECT_H */