From 9e02977bfad006af328add9434c8bffa40e053bb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chao Gao Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2022 08:32:22 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] dma-direct: avoid redundant memory sync for swiotlb 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 Reported-by: Gao Liang Signed-off-by: Chao Gao Reviewed-by: Kevin Tian Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig --- kernel/dma/direct.h | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/dma/direct.h b/kernel/dma/direct.h index 4632b0f4f72e..8a6cd53dbe8c 100644 --- a/kernel/dma/direct.h +++ b/kernel/dma/direct.h @@ -114,6 +114,7 @@ static inline void dma_direct_unmap_page(struct device *dev, dma_addr_t addr, 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 */