From: Soeren Moch <smoch@web.de>
To: Jason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>,
Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>,
Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>,
linaro-mm-sig@lists.linaro.org,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] mm: dmapool: use provided gfp flags for all dma_alloc_coherent() calls
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 23:36:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50F72B73.5070504@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130116174736.GJ25500@titan.lakedaemon.net>
On 16.01.2013 18:47, Jason Cooper wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 06:32:09PM +0100, Soeren Moch wrote:
>> On 16.01.2013 09:55, Soeren Moch wrote:
>>> On 16.01.2013 04:24, Soeren Moch wrote:
>>>> I did not bisect it, but Marek mentioned earlier that commit
>>>> e9da6e9905e639b0f842a244bc770b48ad0523e9 in Linux v3.6-rc1 introduced
>>>> new code for dma allocations. This is probably the root cause for the
>>>> new (mis-)behavior (due to my tests 3.6.0 is not working anymore).
>>>
>>> I don't want to say that Mareks patch is wrong, probably it triggers a
>>> bug somewhere else! (in em28xx?)
>>
>> The em28xx sticks are using isochronous usb transfers. Is there a
>> special handling for that?
>
> I'm looking at that now. It looks like the em28xx wants (as a maximum)
> 655040 bytes (em28xx-core.c:1088). There are 5 transfer buffers, with
> 64 max packets and 2047 max packet size (runtime reported max & 0x7ff).
>
> If it actually needs all of that, then the answer may be to just
> increase coherent_pool= when using that driver. I'll keep digging.
I already tested with 4M coherent pool size and could not see
significant improvement. Would it make sense to further increase the
buffer size?
Regards,
Soeren
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-16 22:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-08 6:38 [PATCH] mm: dmapool: use provided gfp flags for all dma_alloc_coherent() calls Marek Szyprowski
2012-11-11 17:22 ` Andrew Lunn
2012-11-12 9:48 ` Soeren Moch
2012-11-12 10:38 ` Andrew Lunn
2012-11-12 11:03 ` Soeren Moch
2012-11-19 0:18 ` Jason Cooper
2012-11-19 22:48 ` Andrew Morton
2012-11-20 10:48 ` Marek Szyprowski
2012-11-20 19:52 ` Andrew Morton
2012-11-20 14:31 ` [PATCH v2] " Marek Szyprowski
2012-11-20 19:33 ` Andrew Morton
2012-11-20 20:27 ` Jason Cooper
2012-11-21 8:08 ` Marek Szyprowski
2012-11-21 8:36 ` Andrew Morton
2012-11-21 9:20 ` Marek Szyprowski
2012-11-21 19:17 ` Andrew Morton
2012-11-22 12:55 ` Marek Szyprowski
2013-01-14 11:56 ` Soeren Moch
2013-01-15 16:56 ` Jason Cooper
2013-01-15 17:50 ` Greg KH
2013-01-15 20:16 ` Jason Cooper
2013-01-15 21:56 ` Jason Cooper
2013-01-16 0:17 ` Soeren Moch
2013-01-16 2:40 ` Jason Cooper
2013-01-16 3:24 ` Soeren Moch
2013-01-16 8:55 ` Soeren Moch
2013-01-16 15:50 ` [PATCH] ata: sata_mv: fix sg_tbl_pool alignment Jason Cooper
2013-01-16 17:05 ` Soeren Moch
2013-01-16 17:52 ` Jason Cooper
2013-01-16 18:35 ` Jason Cooper
2013-01-16 22:26 ` Soeren Moch
2013-01-16 23:10 ` Soeren Moch
2013-01-17 9:11 ` Soeren Moch
2013-01-16 17:32 ` [PATCH v2] mm: dmapool: use provided gfp flags for all dma_alloc_coherent() calls Soeren Moch
2013-01-16 17:47 ` Jason Cooper
2013-01-16 22:36 ` Soeren Moch [this message]
2013-01-17 10:49 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-01-17 13:47 ` Soeren Moch
2013-01-17 20:26 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-01-19 15:29 ` Soeren Moch
2013-01-19 18:59 ` Andrew Lunn
2013-01-23 15:30 ` Soeren Moch
2013-01-23 16:25 ` Andrew Lunn
2013-01-23 17:07 ` Soeren Moch
2013-01-23 17:20 ` Soeren Moch
2013-01-23 18:10 ` Andrew Lunn
2013-01-28 20:59 ` Soeren Moch
2013-01-29 0:13 ` Jason Cooper
2013-01-29 11:02 ` Andrew Lunn
2013-01-29 11:50 ` Soeren Moch
2013-01-19 20:05 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-01-21 15:01 ` Soeren Moch
2013-01-21 18:55 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-01-21 21:01 ` Greg KH
2013-01-22 18:13 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-01-23 14:37 ` Soeren Moch
2013-01-19 16:24 ` Andrew Lunn
2013-01-15 20:05 ` Sebastian Hesselbarth
2013-01-15 20:19 ` Jason Cooper
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