On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 04:19:35PM +0800, qiang.liu@freescale.com wrote:
Hi all,
The following 8 patches enabling fsl-dma and talitos offload raid
operations for improving raid performance and balancing CPU load.
These patches include talitos, fsl-dma and carma module (caram uses
some features of fsl-dma).
Write performance will be improved by 25-30% tested by iozone.
Write performance is improved about 2% after using spin_lock_bh replace
spin_lock_irqsave.
CPU load will be reduced by 8%.
"fwiw, I gave v5 a test-drive, setting up a RAID5 array on ramdisks
[1], and this patchseries, along with FSL_DMA && NET_DMA set seems
to be holding water, so this series gets my:"
Tested-by: Kim Phillips <redacted>
The fsldma parts of the series all look great to me.
Thanks,
Ira
[1] mdadm --create --verbose --force /dev/md0 --level=raid5 --raid-devices=4 \
/dev/ram[0123]
Changes in v7:
- add test result which is provided by Kim Phillips;
- correct one coding style issue in patch 5/8;
- add comments by Arnd Bergmann in patch 6/8;
Changes in v6:
- swap the order of original patch 3/6 and 4/6;
- merge Ira's patch to reduce the size of original patch;
- merge Ira's patch of carma in 8/8;
- update documents and descriptions according to Ira's advice;
Changes in v5:
- add detail description in patch 3/6 about the process of completed
descriptor, the process is in align with fsl-dma Reference Manual,
illustrate the potential risk and how to reproduce it;
- drop the patch 7/7 in v4 according to Timur's comments;
Changes in v4:
- fix an error in talitos when dest addr is same with src addr, dest
should be freed only one time if src is same with dest addr;
- correct coding style in fsl-dma according to Ira's comments;
- fix a race condition in fsl-dma fsl_tx_status(), remove the interface
which is used to free descriptors in queue ld_completed, this interface
has been included in fsldma_cleanup_descriptor(), in v3, there is one
place missed spin_lock protect;
- split the original patch 3/4 up to 2 patches 3/7 and 4/7 according to
Li Yang's comments;
- fix a warning of unitialized cookie;
- add memory copy self test in fsl-dma;
- add more detail description about use spin_lock_bh() to instead of
spin_lock_irqsave() according to Timur's comments.
Changes in v3:
- change release process of fsl-dma descriptor for resolve the
potential race condition;
- add test result when use spin_lock_bh replace spin_lock_irqsave;
- modify the benchmark results according to the latest patch.
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