Re: [PATCH net-next v2 2/2] page_pool: optimize the cpu sync operation when DMA mapping

On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 11:56:48AM +0800, Yunsheng Lin wrote:

On 2021/8/20 17:39, Ilias Apalodimas wrote:

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On Fri, Aug 20, 2021 at 02:56:51PM +0800, Yunsheng Lin wrote:

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If the DMA_ATTR_SKIP_CPU_SYNC is not set, cpu syncing is
also done in dma_map_page_attrs(), so set the attrs according
to pool->p.flags to avoid calling cpu sync function again.

Isn't DMA_ATTR_SKIP_CPU_SYNC checked within dma_map_page_attrs() anyway?

Yes, the checking in dma_map_page_attrs() should save us from
calling dma_sync_single_for_device() again if we set the attrs
according to "pool->p.flags & PP_FLAG_DMA_SYNC_DEV".

But we aren't syncing anything right now when we allocate the pages since
this is called with DMA_ATTR_SKIP_CPU_SYNC. We are syncing the allocated
range on the end of the function, if the pool was created and was requested
to take care of the mappings for us.

As dma_sync_single_for_device() is EXPORT_SYMBOL()'ed, and
should be a no-op for dma coherent device, so there may be a
function calling overhead for dma coherent device, letting
dma_map_page_attrs() handling the sync seems to avoid the stack
pushing/poping overhead:

https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/kernel/dma/direct.h#L104

The one thing I am not sure about is that the pool->p.offset
and pool->p.max_len are used to decide the sync range before this
patch, while the sync range is the same as the map range when doing
the sync in dma_map_page_attrs().

I am not sure I am following here. We always sync the entire range as well
in the current code as the mapping function is called with max_len.

I assumed the above is not a issue? only sync more than we need?
and it won't hurt the performance?

We can sync more than we need, but if it's a non-coherent architecture,
there's a performance penalty. 

Regards
/Ilias

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Regards
/Ilias

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Signed-off-by: Yunsheng Lin <redacted>
---
 net/core/page_pool.c | 9 +++++----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/core/page_pool.c b/net/core/page_pool.c
index 1a69784..3df5554 100644
--- a/net/core/page_pool.c
+++ b/net/core/page_pool.c

@@ -191,8 +191,12 @@ static void page_pool_dma_sync_for_device(struct page_pool *pool,
 
 static bool page_pool_dma_map(struct page_pool *pool, struct page *page)
 {
+	unsigned long attrs = DMA_ATTR_SKIP_CPU_SYNC;
 	dma_addr_t dma;
 
+	if (pool->p.flags & PP_FLAG_DMA_SYNC_DEV)
+		attrs = 0;
+
 	/* Setup DMA mapping: use 'struct page' area for storing DMA-addr
 	 * since dma_addr_t can be either 32 or 64 bits and does not always fit
 	 * into page private data (i.e 32bit cpu with 64bit DMA caps)

@@ -200,15 +204,12 @@ static bool page_pool_dma_map(struct page_pool *pool, struct page *page)
 	 */
 	dma = dma_map_page_attrs(pool->p.dev, page, 0,
 				 (PAGE_SIZE << pool->p.order),
-				 pool->p.dma_dir, DMA_ATTR_SKIP_CPU_SYNC);
+				 pool->p.dma_dir, attrs);
 	if (dma_mapping_error(pool->p.dev, dma))
 		return false;
 
 	page_pool_set_dma_addr(page, dma);
 
-	if (pool->p.flags & PP_FLAG_DMA_SYNC_DEV)
-		page_pool_dma_sync_for_device(pool, page, pool->p.max_len);
-
 	return true;
 }
 

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2.7.4

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